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 Our old and out of date copy looks a bit worse for wear, and its becauses its always getting used!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…
A DRIVER stopped at Kildwick was over the drugs-drive limit, heard Skipton magistrates. It was just after midnight on May 5 that Usman Ali, 32, who was on licence from prison at the time, was stopped in a Audi RS3 on the A629, the court heard. He failed a road side drugs test and was…
THE driver of a Landrover Freelander stopped in Skipton because he was driving without lights, was over the drink drive limit, heard magistrates. Caleb Harrison, 26, was stopped by a police officer after he drove towards him on Lower Union Street on the evening of March 28 without his lights on, the Skipton court heard….
A ‘tip off’ led to a farmer with a milk round being stopped by police as he left a hotel in Earby after drinking, heard Skipton magistrates. North Yorkshire Police crossed over into Lancashire to stop James Frankland, who was driving a Isuzu Trooper, on Skipton Road, on June 9, the court heard. He admitted…
Wednesday 1 June sees the launch of the North Yorkshire Police and 95 Alive Road Safety Partnership summer campaign to combat drink and drug driving. With the better weather and lighter nights, Police are well aware from experience that the incidents of drink and drug driving increase over the summer months. This year is no…
A DANGEROUS driver who caused a head-on collision on a bridge on the outskirts of Gargrave has been banned from driving for 18 months. Kurdish-speaking Twana Khoshnaw, from Leeds, will also have to complete 200 hours unpaid work and be subject to a year-long community order after being found guilty of dangerous driving at Skipton…