Police officers who took to the West Yorkshire motorway network in a HGV detected 48 offences over a four-day period last week.
Officers from West Yorkshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit used a specially adapted National Highways supercab to conduct patrols of our motorways from a special vantage point as part of Operation Tramline.
Offences spotted included:
16 seat belt offences
13 mobile phone offences
13 red light offences
2 speeding offences
2 driving without due care and attention
Additionally
1 vehicle was seized
1 drink/drug drive arrest was made
and 46 traffic offence reports issued
Sgt Ryan Burt of the Roads Policing Unit said: “The elevated position of the cab allowed us to capture footage of some really poor and potentially dangerous driving and make some effective interventions.”
“Once we identified and offence, the offending vehicle was intercepted by a marked police car, with the driver spoken to and dealt with.”
West Yorkshire Police is working with partners as part of Vision Zero with the aim to eliminate all traffic fatalities and serious injuries on our roads.
It uses the Safe System approach which has five pillars of action: safe road users and behaviours, safe speeds, safe roads, safe vehicles and post-collision response.
21 май 2024
