Motorists in North Yorkshire are being warned of muddy roads. Farmers and vehicle operators who deposit mud on the road are potentially liable for a range of offences and a range of powers are available to the police and the highway authority, primarily under the Highways Act 1980 and the Road Traffic Act 1988. The…
A 25-YEAR-old man branded a “complete liability to road users” has been jailed for 26 months after causing a head-on collision and driving dangerously while attempting to evade police. Javid Ali Shan appeared at Bradford Crown Court yesterday where he was sentenced after pleading guilty to a string of driving offences over two separate incidents…
Welcome to Yorkshire has confirmed Lucy Pittaway will be the race’s official artist for a third successive year. Lucy beat off stiff competition to be awarded the title in 2016 and the partnership has flourished in the time since then. Her first commission ‘Hills, Dales and Woolly Tails’ proved hugely popular with cycling fans and…
A new study has concluded that distractions impair driving performance – irrespective of the driver’s level of ability and experience. The study – carried out by psychologists from Goldsmiths University of London – found that both cognitive tasks (i.e. counting backwards) and combined cognitive/physical tasks (i.e. texting) ‘tended to impair drivers’ performance, irrespective of their…
Welcome to the January 2018 edition of the Road Safety Newsletter. This newsletter has been written for the benefit of those working in the road safety field or who are interested in the topic. Major Road Network Consultation On 23rd December 2017 the Department published a consultation on ‘Proposals for the creation of a…
Drivers in France caught using their mobile phone at the wheel could face having their licence suspended under new rules. Reuters reports that president Emmanuel Macron’s Government is under pressure to combat rising road deaths – which have been increasing since 2014. The mobile phone ban was one of several measures announced on 9 January,…
A poem which highlights a number of key safety messages for cyclists has been named winner of the Safer Essex Roads Partnership’s (SERP) school road safety poetry competition. Under the school poem competition – which formed part of Project EDWARD 2017 activities in Essex – SERP invited schools to submit the best poem written by…
DRIVERS continued to drink or drugs drive over the festive holiday with those arrested by police exactly the same as a year ago. Operation Attention, which ran from the beginning of December to New Year’s Day, saw 137 drivers arrested in North Yorkshire – exactly the same as in Christmas 2016 and and increase of…
A MAN who was caught “driving erratically” when nearly four times over the limit has been handed a suspended sentence. Gary McDonald, 46, from Sowerby near Thirsk, was given a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months, and was disqualified from driving for 30 months. At around 12pm on December 19, 2017, a member of…
A MOTHER-of-two was caught driving with her five-year-old daughter in the car when she was more than twice over the drink drive limit. Jenny Clark, from Thirsk, who pleaded guilty at Northallerton Magistrates Court on Tuesday, was disqualified from driving for 18 months. The 30-year-old was pulled over by police at around 7.15pm on November 12,…