Driver read on the road.

A MAN reading a newspaper while driving a van on a roundabout was caught in a police crackdown, it was revealed yesterday.

Officers stopped the man at Hermiston Gait, in Edinburgh, as he read the paper on his lap during the 24-hour operation against dangerous driving.

The national day of action organised by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland in February involved all eight forces and netted 300 speeding drivers, including a motorist travelling at 51mph past a primary school on the Western Isles.

There were 418 people caught without seatbelts and 171 were stopped for using a mobile phone as they drove.

In Dundee, a 28-year-old woman was reported for driving at 73mph in a 40mph limit and again, a short time later, for using a mobile.

And a 35-year-old man was arrested in Dumfries town centre after verbally abusing officers who stopped him for not wearing aseatbelt..