A learner driver has landed themselves in trouble after failing a drug test while queueing in traffic.

The motorist was arrested after police officers stopped them while dealing with a crash near Chilmington Green in Ashford.

Officers working at the scene of the incident on the A28 this morning pulled the Vauxhall Astra to the side of the road.

When they spoke to the driver, they discovered they only held a provisional licence, meaning they had not passed their driving test – and also that they were uninsured.

To make matters worse, the motorist then failed a roadside drugs test and was duly arrested.

All of this happened, police revealed, while the driver's child was in the car.

This is the latest in a number of motoring mishaps that have happened on Kent's roads.

Last month, a hearse driver was left red faced after being caught talking on a mobile phone at the wheel.

Kent Police's road safety unit tweeted a picture of the vehicle and issued the driver with a traffic offence report.

"Hopefully, this has prevented someone from being transported in the back at a later date," the officers said.

Police were forced to make a similar stop in Dartford just one week prior, when another driver caught chatting on her mobile while behind the wheel asked officers: "So I can't use my phone even if it's on speaker?"

Officers in Dartford pulled over a black Ford Focus in Princes Road at about 11am on January 8 after spotting the driver holding the device up to her face and talking on a call.

She said she couldn't use the phone holder as it kept falling off and "wouldn't stick".