Shoppers were left stunned after an ambulance pulled into an Asda supermarket car park while flashing its blue lights only for a family to exit the vehicle and start doing their weekly big shop.

And when police pulled the vehicle over they found out that the driver was banned from driving, the Manchester Evening News reports.

According to the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989, only emergency vehicles can be fitted with blue flashing lights, or anything that looks like a blue flashing light, whether working or not.

The only times when blue lights can be used are when responding to an emergency, at the scene of an emergency, when wanting to let people know you are there or wanting to let people know that there is a hazard on the…