Nearly 200 motorists who were fined a total of more than £11,000 could all be reimbursed after a 30mph speed limit was wrongly imposed on a Gwynedd road.
Drivers were caught in the speed trap on the A499 between Caernarfon and Pwllheli, while roadworks took place.
The 30mph limit was imposed by Gwynedd council, near Clynnog, in [...]
A grateful visitor to Hastings has thanked police for reuniting her with her lost camera.
Officers used the registration number of Julia Bainbridge’s car pictured in a photograph to track the item back to her after she dropped it.
She said: “I was in Pelham Road car park putting the ticket onto the windscreen.
“I remember the car [...]
They are allegedly working with Asian nationals who act as agents for this lucrative business in the Kingdom as well as in the Gulf, according to a report in Al-Madinah daily.
The number of traffic violations and road accidents has decreased considerably in Riyadh after the introduction of the state-of-the-art traffic monitoring system nearly four months [...]
An initiative to reduce theft of motor vehicle number plates was conducted by Aldborough SNT.
On Sunday 1st August officers set up a ‘Nik Ur Reg’ car surgery for motorists outside Sainsbury’s in King George Avenue, Newbury Park. Aldborough SNT officers gave out crime prevention advice as well as leaflets to highlight types of crime to [...]
Speeding British drivers are facing a crackdown on the Spanish Costas to ensure they pay their fines before they return home from their holidays.
Traffic chiefs tired of binning penalty notices they know will never be paid have devised a new system to fine them on the spot.
Fixed cameras have been fitted with high-tech devices which [...]
NUMBER plates have been stolen from two cars in Stamford.
A blue MG, registration GF52 UCV, was parked in Church Street, Stamford, between 1.30pm and 4pm when the number plates were taken.
The registration plates have the distinctive blue GB sign on the left hand side.
The number plates were also taken from a silver Volkswagen Polo, registration [...]
UK police forces may soon face tough restrictions over the use of the network of Automatic Number Place Recognition Cameras (ANPR) which can trace up to 14 million motorists on the roads.
The network of 4,000 cameras can take photographs of car number plates, which allow police officers to follow vehicles, log and record their details.
Critics [...]
POLICE staged a major crackdown on tax dodging motorists last night.
Officers worked alongside a number of other agencies in the operation which targeted criminals travelling through the county.
Operation Mantis ran from 5.30pm and saw police officers, special constables and officers from the roads policing unit and dog unit work working alongside colleagues from the DVLA, [...]
Police have helped more than 200 motorists protect themselves from number plate thefts.
Following four number plate thefts in June in Great Glen, Harborough, the neighbourhood policing team arranged to distribute anti-theft screw packs with the parish council. These make it almost impossible to remove a number plate without breaking it.
Motorists took 247 of the kits [...]
