Danny,
Your mention of the Skoda brought back another story from my police days.
Back in the late 80's we had a control position just for the M23 in Sussex and then it had a panel for the motorway phones (later transferred to Godstone Motorway Control).
One Sunday evening this was manned by a PC called Barry who took a call from a phone on the southbound. Conversation started off quite normal when all of a sudden Barry starts laughing his head off. Then we heard him say "That will teach you to buy a Skoda!".
Turned out this poor motorist, who did see the funny side of the incident, had been driving along when all of a sudden his back end gives a lurch and he sees his offside read wheel over taking him as he grinds to a halt.
Just as well not too much traffic around or it could have been a nasty one. Also it was before the advent of mobile phones as we know them now, we would have been flood with calls otherwise with few callers knowing exactly were they were.
Best wishes to all the regular tuners to this thread, may 2014 be as good as 2013 for the stories.