The temptation for some drivers who don’t own a sat nav is to use their mobile phone as a handy way of finding their destination. However, police have warned that drivers caught doing this could land them with a £200 fine and six penalty points. In April, tough new laws were brought into force banning…
A SELF employed plasterer has been banned from driving for a year after admitting being over the drugs drive limit in Skipton. Christopher Evans, 32, was stopped by a police officer at 8.30am on February 11 as he drove his white Citroen Relay panel van from Otley Road towards Consort Street, heard magistrates. The officer…
A MOTORIST who pretended he did not drink until after an accident that blocked a road just outside York, has lost his business and his licence the city’s magistrates heard. James Oliver Thomas Moore-Carnall, 26, had twice the legal amount of alcohol in his body when he crashed his Transit van into a telegraph pole…
THE British Horse Society (BHS) has launched its Ride Safe Award in the wake of new statistics which show a 29 per cent increase in road accidents involving horses in the last year. Ride Safe has been designed to help riders feel safer and more confident when riding out on the road and beyond. The…
A lorry driver has become one of the first UK motorists to be fined for driving too close to a cyclist. During a safety campaign on the issue, West Midlands Police officers have posed as cyclists to catch drivers. Dean Littleford, 60, from Birmingham, denied driving without due care and attention in Park Lane West,…
North Yorkshire Police have launched an operation which seeks to identify vulnerable road users. Through a mixture of education and enforcement, Op Spartan aims to improve the attitudes of those who use our roads and increase the level of safety for all. ‘Vulnerable’ road users are classed as those who may be disproportionately involved in…
From March 2017 the law on buying booster cushions will change. Booster cushions offer no side impact protection and can even slip from underneath the child in a collision; it is strongly recommended you always use a high backed booster seat. Under current UK law, all children travelling in a car must use the correct car seat…
North Yorkshire Police have made further arrests in their Christmas drink and drug driving crackdown The first nine days of the campaign saw 41 arrests made, a huge increase of 70% on the same point in 2015. Disappointingly, a further 19 arrests have been made in the past week – bringing the total to 60…
Wednesday 21 September 2016 marks the first European Day Without A Road Death, also known as Project EDWARD. TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network has been inviting people to sign up and pledge to drive and ride safer today, and so far over one hundred thousand people all across Europe have made that pledge. TISPOL’s…
AN inexperienced driver flipped his VW Polo while overtaking on a stretch of road named ‘Coroners’ Corridor’ because of its high accident rate, heard Skipton Magistrates. Alexander Seater, 24, was unfamiliar with the stretch of the A59 at Beamsley Hill, described as the second most dangerous in the country, the court heard. Magistrates banned him…