Something you don’t see every day:

A dog found at the controls of a tractor on the M74 motorway has caused long tailbacks. http://t.co/z0kqU1mDGN

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) April 22, 2015

Delays were caused on a busy stretch of motorway earlier “due to a dog taking control of a tractor”.

The bizarre incident was reported by Traffic Scotland at J13 of the M74 near Abington in South Lanarkshire.

It later emerged that a sheepdog called Don, owned by a local farmer, had leaned on the controls of a tractor, taking it from a field on to the road.

Police and the farmer later recovered Don, who was unhurt, and the tractor, from the central reservation.

Here is a pic of the dog from the tractor incident on the#M74. The dog is called Don and is a collie #inthedoghouse pic.twitter.com/ipBe5vUHpG

— Traffic Scotland (@trafficscotland) April 22, 2015

(Traffic Scotland’s twitter TL tweets and replies are pretty funny about this incident.)