Road safety crackdown in Wombourne
Just under half of the vehicles stopped as part of a
council and police-led operation in the South Staffordshire village
of Wombourne have been ordered to have repairs done to them to make
them roadworthy.
Fifty four vehicles were stopped along the
A449 in Wombourne heading towards Wolverhampton on Thursday 15th
December as part of a Christmas road safety operation.
Officers from Staffordshire Police, South
Staffordshire Council, Customs and Excise and VOSA pulled over the
vehicles in the latest part of an ongoing operation to crack down
on rogue traders, unsafe vehicles and people driving without
licenses and MOTs in South Staffordshire.
Twenty two of the vehicles stopped were
ordered to undertake immediate repair works ranging from defective
tyres loose steering joints and broken tail lights. One scrap metal
dealer’s vehicle was seized and taken off the road after VOSA’s
mechanics deemed it unroadworthy.
All of the defective vehicles will now have to
report to VOSA’s base in Featherstone for inspection before being
allowed back on the road.
Seven other motorists were fined for not
wearing seat belts whilst two others were fined for driving whilst
on mobile phones.
Councillor Roger Lees, Cabinet
member for Public Health Protection Services at South Staffordshire
Council said:
“We’re working with the police
to make our roads safer. We’re using our powers to check that scrap
metal dealers are operating with the correct licenses and if
they’re not – they risk getting caught and they risk getting
fined.”
This page was last updated on: 12/20/2011