Archive for February, 2012
February 29th, 2012 by admin
A motorcyclist caught speeding 84mph in a 30mph zone has been jailed for 18 weeks after trying to avoid the speeding offence by claiming he had sold his bike. Keith Darch, from Abergele, Conwy, admitted perverting the court of justice.
North Wales Police sent the biker a Section 172 form asking who had been riding the bike at the time of the alleged offence. Darch, the registered keeper, returned the form claiming someone else was the rider and claimed he had sold the bike around the time of the alleged offence.
Darch later admitted in court that he was the driver at the time.
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
An off-duty police officer caught drink-driving has been banned from the roads for 16 months.
Lincoln Magistrates’ Court heard that the officer had gotten into his vehicle beneath Lincoln police station after drinking in the city with Colleagues last December. Two officers returning from foot patrol recognised the driver as Sergeant Dunderdale from the road policing unit.
Dunderdale, who received a commendation for his investigation into a previous fatal drink drive accident, resigned from Lincolnshire Police soon after his arrest.
The officer failed to successfully complete a breathalyser test and was taken to hospital were a blood sample shown 137mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The legal limit it 80mg.
Lincoln Magistrates’ Court banned him from driving for 16 months.
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
A golf champion who wrote off his car whilst drink-driving has been banned for 14 months.
Police arrived and breathlysed the professional golfer after he crashed into a parked vehicle and was found to be just above the legal limit for driving. After pleading guilty to drink driving at Bolton Crown Court, he was banned for 14 months and fined.
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
Caught drink driving? A milkman from Solihull could lose his job after being caught drink-driving at the wheel of his float. Mark Chamberlain was almost twice the legal drink drive limit after downing three pints of beer when he finished his round. The 37 year old was caught when police saw him talking on a mobile phone as he drove home and was ordered to give a breath sample.
Magistrates adjourned sentencing until March 7 for reports to be prepared and Chamberlain was released on bail. If found convicted he could lose his job as a result of the ban.
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
Death by dangerous driving – The father of a 14 year old killed in a car crash has spoken of his anger after it was revealed that the young driver who was jailed for causing death by dangerous driving is set to appeal his sentence.
Micheal Partington, aged 19 had been driving at speeds of upto 70mph in a 20mph zone when he lost control of his car and hit a tree. He was jailed for four and a half years after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
More than half of drivers arrested for drink-driving in West Mercia last year were caught getting behind the wheel the next day, figures have revealed.
A total of 55 per cent of people caught driving above the legal drink drive limit in 2011 were arrested between 5am and noon across the West Mercia force area, which covers Shropshire. This was more than four times the national figure of 13 per cent caught between the same times across the whole of the UK.
Matthew Mycock, Autoglass managing director said: “The figures show that potentially hundreds of thousands of motorists are risking their own and other people’s lives by driving their car in the morning while still over the limit.
“They may have had a bottle of wine at home the night before but still be unfit to get behind the wheel.
“You shouldn’t drive for 13 hours if you have had three 250ml glasses of 15 per cent strength wine or four pints of strong lager.”
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
Record numbers of women convicted of speeding last year.
Overall there were 870,829 drivers caught speeding and 31% were women up from the 17% in 2002.
And of the 60,818 caught for drink drivers, 17% were women.
According to Andrew Howard, head of road safety at the AA, the figures are down to the increase of speed cameras and that women simply do not get away with speeding as much as they used to when a decision would be left up to individual officers.
Overall, women made up 17% of all road crime figures in 2011 – more than a million offences.
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
South Yorkshire Police have announced that for the next two weeks, they will use an unmarked heavy goods vehicle to assist them in identifying drivers – including truck drivers – who are committing road offences and putting themselves and others at risk.
Using the height of the lorry will give the police a different viewpoint from which to try to detect offences. Officers will be able to see directly into the cabs of commercial vehicles aswell as getting a different view of other vehicles to check whether drivers are keeping their eyes on the road or whether they are endangering others using a mobile phone and other electronic devices.
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Tags: careless driving, dangerous driving, Mobile phone, motoring offences, police, speeding, Speeding Solicitor
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February 29th, 2012 by admin
The number in motorists caught speeding in Suffolk have risen by about 5,500 in just one year new figures reveal. The speed cameras have now generated more than £2m over the past two years, not including the number of Suffolk motorists avoiding fines and penalty points by completing speed awareness courses.
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