Police team's decisive action prevents a tragedy on the M1

THEY BYPASSED TRAFFIC JAM TO SAVE LIFE OF BIKER WHO HAD STOPPED BREATHING

- By ANNETTE BELCHER

POLICE officers helped save a motorcyclist's life after finding him unconscious on the M1.

Four Nottinghamshire Police vehicles were travelling to Northamptonshire for an off-road training exercise earlier this month when they came across standstill traffic.

They travelled down the hard shoulder and found a motorcyclist lying motionless in the road.

He was not breathing, so deputy chief driving instructor Alan Rawsthorne performed emergency first aid, including CPR, with help from operational support officers PC Brown and PC Johnston.

Together they saved his life.

Recalling the incident, on the M1 in Leicestershire on the morning of Tuesday, April 8, Alan said: "We came across slow-moving traffic which had become stationary at a spot that doesn't usually encounter any traffic problems.