A lorry driver has been caught travelling through Kent with a smashed windscreen.

Police from the county's roads unit pulled over the trucker on the Dartford crossing after noticing his window was badly damaged.

He told them it was caused by a rock while he was driving in Birmingham, but it's not known if it was thrown at the lorry or fell from another vehicle.

He apparently could not understand why it was dangerous to drive with an obscured view.

Police fined him and banned him from driving until the window was fixed.

A police spokesman said: "Police officers stopped a lorry traveling over the Dartford River Crossing into Kent with a damaged windscreen.

"The driver was given a graduated fixed penalty notice for failing to have a clear and unobstructed view of the road.

"The lorry will not be permitted to move until the windscreen is fixed."

It comes just a week after another unrepentant lorry driver was pulled over for having a shattered windscreen.

The driver told officers he hadn't planned to get the damage fixed until he reached France.

He said it wasn't a problem as it was being propped up by the steering wheel.