Project Edward launches push for safe speeds15/09/2021 Police forces across the UK have carried out the first ever National Safe Speeds Day to highlight the human cost of excessive speed and encourage compliance with speed limits. |
Highways England should take on a policing role, PCC says06/04/2018 Gloucestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has called for ‘routine’ areas of roads policing to pass to Highways England to enable police officers to prioritise more serious crimes. |
Police use HGV cab to catch dangerous drivers05/10/2016 Police have stopped almost 2,700 drivers for unsafe driving over the past 16 months with the help of a HGV cab that allows officers to film from an elevated position. |
Drug drive arrests up 800%29/02/2016 Drug drive arrests have soared by up to 800% in a year after the government introduced tough new laws to catch and convict offenders, according to initial figures from police forces. |
Number of traffic police falls by 23%09/02/2015 There has been a 23% reduction in the number of police dedicated to enforcing traffic offences in England and Wales in the last five years. |
Video: Man jailed for driving in wrong direction on M2504/02/2015 A man has been banned from driving for three years and handed a 14 month sentence in a young offenders’ institute after being caught driving for nine miles the wrong way on the M25 and the A2 in Kent. |
CCTV captures lorry driver’s motorway U-turn14/11/2014 Motorway police have released footage of a lorry driver doing a U-turn on the M6 Toll after he was given a suspended prison sentence. |
FOI data shows children as young as 11 caught drink-driving02/10/2014 More than 6,500 minors have been caught drinking and driving in the last six years, according to new Freedom of Information (FOI) data obtained by in-car camera provider, Nextbase. |
Five arrests after bricks thrown onto M2503/01/2013 Five teenage boys have been arrested after four vehicles were hit by bricks thrown from a footbridge over the M25 at Waltham Abbey on Tuesday. |
Lorry drivers caught with feet on the dashboard17/09/2012 Lorry drivers have been caught on camera by Suffolk police with their feet on the dashboard, eating sandwiches and using computers. |
Police probe Scottish death road08/09/2011 Scottish police are to carry out an in-depth analysis of an 18-mile stretch of a major road in the Borders after one of its most notorious accident blackspots claimed the life of a motorcyclist this week. |
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