We may pay as European leaders sleep at the wheel

IT’S been dubbed the slowest car chase in history. Caroline Turner, 76, powered along at 10mph in her Ford Fiesta, driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway as a fleet of Essex police patrol cars “chased” her at a snail’s pace for 27 miles last Tuesday.

She willfully ignored their wailing sirens, flashing lights and even the “rolling road-block” they threw around her vehicle after the authorities forced an emergency closure of the carriage-way to other traffic.

In a Father Ted-esque finale to the drama, Ms Turner was only stopped when an officer jogged alongside her car and tapped on the window.