23 June 2015 From the section England Painter Ian Stephens insists he was travelling faster than the traffic in the inside lane A man believed to be the first person convicted of hogging the middle lane of a motorway claims he has been made a scapegoat because he is a white van driver. Ian Stephens was fined £940 for driving without due care and attention in the middle lane of the M62 last August. He told the BBC he has "done nothing wrong" and was merely driving on a steep section of the motorway in high winds. He is considering appealing. Mr Stephens, 42, of Shevington, near Wigan, said all three lanes of the motorway were busy and denied making other drivers behind him swerve and brake....
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