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Comedian Vic Reeves has been dropped from his role advertising car insurance. The news follows weekend reports in which he crashed his vintage Jaguar into a stationary car in Maidstone before careering into a bank and hitting a fence.

Mr Reeves was formerly employed as the voice of the nodding dog in the Churchill adverts, also starring his longtime comedy partner and friend Bob Mortimer.

A spokesman for Churchil said they took road safety "very seriously", and had decided to withdraw the adverts.

Reeves was arrested and charged with drink driving and leaving the scene of an accident. He is due to appear before magistrates on the 7th of April.

Here at Funny.co.uk we very rarely make public safety announcements, but please, don't drink and drive.

Note: We would also like to point out that Mr Bob Mortimer was not in any way connected with the incident.