A van driver has been given a criminal conviction and told to pay £266 for tooting his horn to attract the attention of a friend.
Jamie Spence, 52, from Writtle, near Chelmsford, was spotted by a police officer while sounding his horn outside Braintree station on 4 December last year.
The officer then reported Spence for “sounding an unauthorised audible warning instrument on a vehicle”, which led to the criminal prosecution.
“When outside the station, [the] subject vehicle hooted [its] horn a number of times to try and get the attention of a friend, not for the purpose of warning other road users,” PC Asa Smith wrote in a statement to Colchester Magistrates’ Court.