A cyclist was 'surrounded by police' on the M3 motorway in Surrey on Wednesday after being directed there by a satellite navigation app on his smartphone. It is the second such incident in two weeks after a man was caught riding on the hard shoulder of the M25 between junctions 12 and 13, also in Surrey, and blamed his sat nav app for sending him there.
Surrey Police Roads Unit highlighted the latest incident via its Twitter account: "He is cycling along the M3 from Sunbury towards the M25. The driving school are training in a group and have him surrounded."
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