After appearing at Warwick Crown Court on 2 February 2024, 21 year old THOMAS O’BRIEN-WOOD from The Beck, Dudley, West Midlands was sentenced to 7½ years imprisonment and disqualified from driving for 8 years and 9 months for Causing death by dangerous driving on 4 October 2022 of his passenger… Read more »
More suspected drink and drug drivers arrested as others face court
Police continue to arrest suspected drink and drug drivers as they patrol the county’s roads in the run up to Christmas and New Year, including:- A 48 year old woman from Leamington Spa who was arrested at 18.07hours on 12 December on Wedgnock Lane, Warwick after a member of the… Read more »
Police arrest drink and drug drivers across Warwickshire
Warwickshire Police are continuing to increase their patrols across the county to target and arrest suspected drink and drug drivers over Christmas and the New Year. Recent arrests include:- Thanks to a phone call to the police about a suspected drink driver, a 41 year old woman from Bedworth was… Read more »
Officers concentrate on removing drink and drug drivers from the roads in the run up to Christmas and New Year
Officers are increasing their enforcement activity across Warwickshire in the run up to Christmas and into the New Year in order to catch drink and drug drivers and reduce the number of people killed or injured every year on our roads. During Operation Limit, all drivers who are involved in… Read more »
Removal van driver removed from roads for driving whilst disqualified
Thirty year old Karl Andrew Webb from Birmingham Road, Stratford upon Avon has been sentenced for the second time in 6 months for serious driving offences. He was sentenced to a 12 month driving ban and fines by Leamington Magistrates on 13 June 2023 after his careless driving on the… Read more »
Rugby drink driver sentenced following collision
Forty year old Ioan Macovei from Alabaster Way, Rugby was disqualified from driving for 48 months and given a Community Order to complete 150 hours supervised unpaid work within the next 12 months, after appearing at Warwickshire Magistrates Court on Friday 27 October 2023 charged with drink driving. He was… Read more »
HGV driver imprisoned for seriously injuring family on M42 northbound
Fifty-three year old Dominic Nicholls from Inkerman Terrace, Hadleigh, Ipswich has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for the offence of dangerous driving causing serious injury to three members of the same family, including an 8 year old child, when the HGV he was driving crashed into the rear… Read more »
Haulage company fined £150,000 after employee death
A family run haulage and storage business, has been fined following the death of a 25-year-old employee at its premises in East Lothian. Andrew Black Limited was fined £150,000 after the death of Grant Borton, an experienced LGV driver on 31 December 2022. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard that after finishing… Read more »
Watch as HGV careers across busy M6 wiping out 100m of barrier and causing long delays for motorists
Caught on camera – the moment a HGV veers across the busy M6 and tears down a stretch of the central reservation barrier leaving taxpayers with a hefty bill and causing 90-minute delays for drivers. The HGV simply then carried on its journey leaving a trail of damage in its… Read more »
Police in National Highways’ unmarked HGV cabs spot 700 offences
Almost 700 offences were spotted in just one week by police officers patrolling the M1 in National Highways’ unmarked HGV cabs. Eight police forces travelled the route between Leeds and London in the HGVs on the look-out for unsafe driving in a week of action targeting the motorway. They stopped… Read more »
