Late one night coming back from a party in Maidstone, Jacqui was driving, up Bluebell Hill and turned onto the M2.

She said "there are a lot of lights behind. I turned to look. After some concentrating it became clear that there were three sets of headlights (this in on a 2 lane motorway as it was then) and another set weaving about behind them. And lots of blue flashing lights. And sirens.

2 sets jiggled a bit and the behind set came through - no blue lights on that one. They were coming down pretty fast. We tucked WELL out onto the hard shoulder and a white Transit van with dents on the side we could see went past for all it was worth and three police cars lights and sirens on - one dented on the side we could see.

We inferred that the Transit had rammed its way through the "rolling roadblock".

A few seconds later the Transit rolled, big style, and came to rest on the armco beside the hard shoulder, upside down.   The police cars blocked the road. we pulled up to make an orderly queue and there we sat.

After a few minutes a plod came back, thanked us for having the sense to have got out of the way (!) and told us that the Transit had been involved in an armed blag and they had been trying to stop it from near Sittingbourne. And that we would have to wait until they got the injured blaggers out.   Amazingly they all walked out but two seemed to have broken arms.

About half an hour later we got rolling again.