Cars for Stars News

Your wedding day is supposed to be the most relaxed and hassle-free event of your life, with timing and agendas having been perfected through the planning process.

For one Dorset couple this was not the case, having to deal with a run-in with the police during their special day.

Ali and Paul Bartlett were being chauffeured in the back of Wayne Duke’s 1969 Dodge Charger when the Dorset Police pulled Mr Duke over in Weymouth.

The police explained that the Dixie Land-theme air horn was a nuisance and being in the area they noticed the loud, disturbing noise.

Mr Dukes, the driver, was reported for summons for the offence of using a musical horn on the road.

A spokeswoman for Dorset Police said: “The case will now go to Dorset Police’s traffic prosecutions department for consideration for prosecution.”

Mr Duke said: “I do have a normal horn but as it’s such a fun car that everybody loves the ‘Dixie Land’ horn and plead with me to sound it, which I did as I was driving Paul and Ali to their reception a couple of times”.

“They must have been chasing us through a great deal of traffic to get to us. When he asked Wayne to open the bonnet it all started to look very serious. I thought he would have given him a warning. I didn’t think it would be a full summons.

“I have to say it did make a talking point at the wedding and I think we will always remember the day when our wedding car was stopped by one of Boss Hogg’s boys. They didn’t even apologise to Ali on her big day.”