I skipped a three-hour traffic jam with my sneaky high-vis vest trick… people think I’m a hero

A DRIVER has revealed how he skipped a three-hour traffic jam with a sneaky high-vis vest trick - people think he's a hero.

Nathan Twamley, 27, from Dublin in Ireland, used the high-vis to jump the queue on his way back from a concert.

He shared how he pretended to be a traffic warden to wave his friends through the hours-long traffic jam in just 10 minutes.

Posting to , Nathan's girlfriend Courtney said: "Bring yourself a high vis to a concert to get yourself out quicker.

"He got us out in ten minutes. The funniest night ever, never underestimate Nathan.”

The lad hatched his plan when he realised other drivers had already been waiting in the queue for hours - his pal Sean Rafferty, 26, coincidentally happened to have a yellow work vest in his book.

Nathan said: “There were people who had already been stuck for two hours.

“I said to Sean I’d love to have a high-vis right now to get past and he said he had one in the boot.

“I hopped out and people were asking me ‘what's going on?’ and I told them there had been an accident.

“I was knocking on people's windows telling them to move over so we could fit past.

“We skipped three hours of traffic.

“We just couldn't stop laughing, we got past all the traffic and looked back and none of the cars had moved.

“One bloke who worked there looked over at me right at the end and I think he clocked on but he just laughed as if to say 'fair play'.”

A video that captured Nathan's cunning shows him sauntering along confidently in front of his friend's car, directing the vehicle alongside a huge queue to their left hand-side.

As one car attempts to pull out in front of them, Nathan is quick to stop the car before waving his friends forward.

In the clip he can be seen looking back to the camera with a cheeky grin in realisation that he's pulled off the move.

One said: “You can literally do anything in a high-vis and no one looks twice.”

Another added: “Not all heroes wear capes.”

It comes after a driver who is set to be charged £12.50 a day under new Clean Air Zone rules revealed how he got his revenge on jobsworth council bosses.

Engin Coban, 48, from London, started walking around with a registration plate strapped to his back, deliberately tricking cameras into issuing fines.

He hopes that that the fake fines issued by the plate will overwhelm the system, forcing bosses to shut it down.