A drink-driver drove “for miles” with a missing tyre until she was stopped by police near St Albans.

Sharon Gold from Neville Croft, Barnet was pulled over on St Albans Road, early in the morning on January 31, after police noticed the Fiat 500 she was driving had three tyres and one wheel.

Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Policing Unit tweeted a picture of the missing tyre.

They also wrote she “had no idea that she’d lost the tyre and thought her car had broken down. Discs were glowing bright red when stopped”.

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The 46-year-old was found to be almost three times over the legal alcohol limit.

Dan Phillips, spokesman for Hertfordshire Constabulary, said: “At 3.13am police had received a call from a member of the public reporting a broken down car on the M25 anti-clockwise carriageway near to Junction 24.

The car was then seen to leave the M25 and was located by officers in Trotters Bottom, heading in the direction of Barnet.

“The driver was stopped and spoken to in St Albans Road.”

She has since been charged with driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and is due to appear at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court on February 17.