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…
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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 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…
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…
When is the last time you read the Highway code? Our old and out of date copy looks a bit worse for wear, and its becauses its always getting used! Just waiting on a new one to come in the post. From what to do if you break down on the motorway to traffic signs, its…
A horse rider road safety campaign led by The British Horse Society (BHS) is being supported by North Yorkshire Police at the Great Yorkshire Show. The joint initiative follows the launch of the BHS’s Dead Slow campaign, a response to the alarming number of horse incidents seen by the BHS. In the five years since it…
As part of the ongoing crackdown on summer drink and drug driving, North Yorkshire Police have conducted over 800 breath tests and made 132 arrests for drink and drug driving throughout June 2016. These figures represent an increase of 19% on arrests made over the same period last year. So far 17 people have provided…
A Malton woman has been banned from driving for three years after admitting getting behind the wheel while four times the drink drive limit. Lesley Dawson, of Milton Avenue, was pulled over by police in Princess Road, Malton, at 12.50pm on Tuesday June 7 after they spotted the car being driven slowly and struggling to…
A SPEEDING driver stopped by police in Cowling was over the drink drive limit and uninsured, heard Skipton magistrates. Daniel Emmott, 34, who was doing 66mph in the 30mph limit in his Ford Focus, had two previous convictions for drink driving, including one within ten years, the court heard. He was banned from driving for…