The wreck
I was SDO at West Raynham that night. We needed to get a bowser full of fuel to Cromer pronto to fill up the helos en route the sinking. The duty MT driver was very concerned that the bowser concerned, we needed to send a small one to negotiate the country lanes, was not street legal lacking the appropriate signs for carrying furel on public roads.
I arranged for a nav from 85 to steal some flares from the third seat of a Canberra in the hangar to guide the helos to the site and off they went.
I thought the way to avoid problems with the bowser was to make a clean breast of it with the rozzers at the local cop shop and rang them up.
The bowser was escorted all the way by two cop cars, lights and bells a full bloom. The nav and driver stayed with the bowser overnight at the local pub and came back next morning mostly empty.
Nothing more was ever said about the legal situation, cops had a certain degree of common sense in them days. The 85 Squadron engineer wanted me charged with sabotage