Torbay drivers nicked

Police stop 50 drivers in four hours

Police have been out nicking doggy drivers in Torbay.

They stopped roughly 50 vehicles over four hours to check driving documents and condition of vehicles.

The operation found, four tyre offences, one insurance offence, one person not driving in accordance with their licence and a number plate offence.
A Safety Camera Partnership vehicle snapped drivers at two busy locations in Paignton and Torquay, resulting in 19 speeding offences at high vulnerability sites in an hour and half.

Officers from the alliance roads policing ream carried out mobile patrols and responded to Automatic Number Plate Recognition activations. Results from this part of the operation were:

• six no insurance offences
• three mobile phones
• two disqualified driving offences
• four speeding offences
• four seat belt offences (updated)
• two number plate offences
• one undeclared vehicle modification
• one zig zag parking offence

Police claim "operations like this are not designed to prosecute or ticket people unnecessarily. They are designed to show that motorists need to change their behaviour to prevent loss of life on the area’s roads. Devon & Cornwall Police appeal to motorists to drive sensibly on the road network, concentrate on their driving, making sure vehicles are roadworthy and insured."