A driver told police he was 'on his way to buy weed' when he was stopped for having no insurance in Midway.

However, his car was seized after trying to convince officers that he had a day policy for the vehicle.

Police have made it clear that the driver was not under the influence of drink or drugs.

But a post on the Swadlincote Safer Neighbourhood Team Facebook page suggested he would have been hitch-hiking home.

The SNT message message reads: "Seems our driver here is from the stoned age, you can get anything delivered nowadays!

"Best buds Batman and Robin pulled up behind this uninsured car in Midway yesterday evening, our little mate admitting to us he was on his way to buy his weed.

"Unfortunately it appears this is where his honesty ended, despite his insistence that he had a day policy and had been earlier stopped and allowed on his way by another local police force, the insurance company claimed otherwise.

"We envisage that by the time he'd hiked home, tools in hands, there was more than one joint smoking and not the one he'd planned on.

"The driver was reported for driving without insurance and vehicle seized."