Terrified motorists had to swerve to avoid a pensioner driving the wrong way across the Tay Road Bridge on Sunday.
The driver of the Volkswagen Touareg, believed to be in his eighties, weaved his way through oncoming traffic after joining the bridge on the wrong side at Dundee.
Panic-stricken motorists had to dodge the 4×4 as it made its way along the 1.4 mile stretch of road to Fife.
The 50mph zone was packed withdrivers making their way to the city for the Premiership derby clash between Dundee and Dundee United.
Police were alerted to the incident by bridge control and chased the rogue driver on the correct carriageway beforeeventually catching up with him in Fife.
Zoe Hail, 31, a nurse from Newport, said: “I was on the way to Dundee to take my five-year-old to rugby.
“We were all in the car my three-year-old daughter, my son, my partner and me.
“It all happened very quickly. I didn’t actually see the car it was my partner.
“He suddenly shouted to get into the other lane and that was when I saw this car coming straight towards me in theright-hand lane.
“He was flashing his lights, but he was not going particularly slowly.We were lucky we could move across there was not much traffic around us, but further back it was really crowded.
“There was a motorbike as well and it all looked pretty hairy.It didn’t really compute when it was happening it is not something you expect. We had time to move but it was still scary.
“I thought afterwards perhaps the bridge control could have put up a warning sign or something, but I suppose it just allhappened so fast.
“It was when we came down that we saw the police going up on the other side after him.”
A spokesman for Police Scotland,Tayside Division, said: “We received a call at 9.55am from Tay Road Bridge control reporting a vehicle travelling southbound on the northbound carriageway.
“Colleagues from Fife Division stopped the vehicle, a Volkswagen Touareg, a short time later.”
No one was hurt in the incident and the vehicle made it to Fife unscathed.
Fife Division confirmed they had stopped a driver near the Tay Bridgeroundabout by Newport.
A spokeswoman said the driver had been reported to the procurator fiscal regarding road traffic offences.
A spokesman for the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board did not wish to comment,saying it was a police matter.