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All Stanley Murphy wanted when he popped out on his mobility scooter was to pick up a newspaper from his local shop.


But the 90-year-old took one wrong turning and ended up on a busy dual carriageway with cars and lorries thundering past him at speed. Undaunted, Mr Murphy kept his "pedal to the metal" and continued trundling along in the centre of the slow lane at his top speed – 8mph. He was eventually spotted by a truck driver who realised the pensioner was in imminent danger as he drove along the A27 in Shoreham, West Sussex. James Dunne, the owner of a paving company, pulled over and put on his hazard lights to try to get the Mr Murphy to stop his mobility scooter during the incident on Thursday morning.

Mr Murphy, though, kept going....Link