Blundering cabbie stops on Stoke-on-Trent A50 to 'sort sat-nav'
It resulted in other vehicles having to swerve out of the way of the taxi and sparked queues.
A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: "If you are lost please don't stop in a live lane of a dual-carriageway to sort the sat-nav. Unlike this taxi driver we came across on the A50 where other cars had been swerving out of the way to avoid a collision and also causing unnecessary tailbacks. The driver has been reported."
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