The incident occurred in Weymouth, Dorset, during a county-wide 'No Excuse' safety campaign to educate people about bad driving.A motorist was caught by police driving with her car bonnet wide open and peering through the tiny gap to see where she was going.
When incredulous officers pulled her over, the 53-year-old woman, who has has not been named, told them the bonnet was faulty and she was on her way to get it repaired.
The incident occurred in Weymouth, Dorset, during a county-wide "No Excuse" safety campaign to educate people about bad driving.
The woman had been using a four inch gap between her dashboard and the bonnet to steer her car through the seaside town.
Police have yet to decide whether they will press charges as they continue their investigations.
Officers in the resort detected 30 offences in just one day, which they say could have led to serious crashes.
Other unusual scenes included one man steering the car with his elbows while using both hands to roll a cigarette and reading from a clipboard placed across the steering wheel.
In total 2,364 driving offences were picked up across Dorset in the first six weeks of the campaign.
Brian Austin, project manager of the No Excuse campaign, said: "The female driver told police that she was on her way to the garage to get the bonnet fixed.
"We have had incidents like this before, not long ago a man had scraped a circle of a few inches in the ice on his windscreen and then was amazed when police stopped him.
"We are determined to make the roads of Dorset safer for residents and visitors."
Robert Smith, head of road safety at Dorset County Council, said: "Our partners in the police aren't having to look too hard to find examples of dangerous driving, from the bizarre to the truly terrifying.
"Around 30 per cent of the offences detected in the campaign's first six weeks involved drivers using a handheld mobile phone or not bothering to put on their seatbelt.
"It shows that there is still a significant number who have yet to get the message that there's no excuse for putting lives at risk through bad and careless driving."
When incredulous officers pulled her over, the 53-year-old woman, who has has not been named, told them the bonnet was faulty and she was on her way to get it repaired.
The incident occurred in Weymouth, Dorset, during a county-wide "No Excuse" safety campaign to educate people about bad driving.
The woman had been using a four inch gap between her dashboard and the bonnet to steer her car through the seaside town.
Police have yet to decide whether they will press charges as they continue their investigations.
Officers in the resort detected 30 offences in just one day, which they say could have led to serious crashes.
Other unusual scenes included one man steering the car with his elbows while using both hands to roll a cigarette and reading from a clipboard placed across the steering wheel.
In total 2,364 driving offences were picked up across Dorset in the first six weeks of the campaign.
Brian Austin, project manager of the No Excuse campaign, said: "The female driver told police that she was on her way to the garage to get the bonnet fixed.
"We have had incidents like this before, not long ago a man had scraped a circle of a few inches in the ice on his windscreen and then was amazed when police stopped him.
"We are determined to make the roads of Dorset safer for residents and visitors."
Robert Smith, head of road safety at Dorset County Council, said: "Our partners in the police aren't having to look too hard to find examples of dangerous driving, from the bizarre to the truly terrifying.
"Around 30 per cent of the offences detected in the campaign's first six weeks involved drivers using a handheld mobile phone or not bothering to put on their seatbelt.
"It shows that there is still a significant number who have yet to get the message that there's no excuse for putting lives at risk through bad and careless driving."
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