Our village is on the A30, 40mph limits, narrow pavements and little onroad parking.

The police today had about 6 traffic cars stopping literally hundreds of cars, doing roadworthyness chacks and any transgression rewarded with the car being impounded and flatbedded away, they must have taken 2 dozen cars.

The worst was a 4 year old Rover 75 with elderly occupand on the way back from Morrisons. Kicked out of their car with about 6 bags of shopping each to carry to the nearest bus stop. I havent a clue what was wrong with it, perhaps a split wiper blade?

I agree with all cars being well maintained and legal, this this behavior borders on terrorism.

..and no, I wasnt one of the victims

They ahve been having a blitz around here as well.

Whats up with this country.
The only thing our police seem to be allowd to do is motoring offences.
I live in an area which sometimes has Yob problems and the help from our police is completley useless.
My dillemma is which thieving greedy bunch to vote for next time.

Good for the necessary targets and statistics though.

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there w++kers
i got 3 points and £60 fine for crossing a double white line, some might say thats fair,
but not when your on a motorcycle doing 2mph past grid locked trafic, i didn't even cross it just rode on it for a couple of metres,
some are ok but most are total t*ssers to say the least as you can never reason with them

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some are ok but most are total t*ssers to say the least as you can never reason with them

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they were doing it round here too last week, 2 bikes, 1 black unmarked one and an unmarked car.

its comming upto xmas and they want their bonuses.

scum really, not what my grandfathers fought for but more like what they faught against.

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson

The worst was a 4 year old Rover 75 with elderly occupand on the way back from Morrisons. Kicked out of their car with about 6 bags of shopping each to carry to the nearest bus stop.

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I want to know how the government can go on about reducing bullying - the way motorists are persecuted is appalling.

If it isn't speed cameras monitoring our every progress, you are then targeted by traffic wardens, attacked by environmentalists for having old cars (even though manufacturing of a new car causes 7 times as much emissions as a car will create in its driven lifetime) or castigated for living in the countryside and not using the shambolic public transport!

Manipulated statistics for shock headlines? Of all the pedestrians knocked down on our roads last year, over 75% were drunk.

Grrr...rant over!

im one off those guys who drive a flatbed and remove `innocent` peoples cars from the road here is my day in peterborough.... A bmw 318 2002 driven by a 50ish year old male=no insurance..... A nissan sunny unknown driver but again no insurance or licence...... next was a SWB transit front tyres with wire showing thru....... next a lady with a chevy matiz no insurance .......that was till around 10am total today 7

Nothing against idiots with no insurance getting their cars taken away.

Though I suspect the current crackdown is more about generating some nice spin for HM Govt during the current bad news days (hiding the fact they were issuing illegals with clearance for security jobs today ) and some bonuses for senior plod (doubt the guys out in the cold see much if any of the loot).

You may have a point, as alamist as it all first appears.

To get hit by one of these drivers who was uninsured etc we'd all be mad

I thought the standard thing for something slightly amiss on the car like a bulb being out or a tyre with low tread (if not 3 points) was a warning type producer to get it replaced/checked/repaired in XX days.

the firm i work for has been removing these types of cars for the police for 18 months now at around 4-10 per day but to be honest most do not speak english as their first laguage

Because apparently you aren't taxed enough.

As suggested above, I suspect they were mostly uninsured drivers - cars don't get towed away for minor defects.

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Originally posted by george1980
there w++kers
i got 3 points and £60 fine for crossing a double white line, some might say thats fair,
but not when your on a motorcycle doing 2mph past grid locked trafic, i didn't even cross it just rode on it for a couple of metres

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Rule 129

Double white lines where the line nearest you is solid. This means you MUST NOT cross or straddle it unless it is safe and you need to enter adjoining premises or a side road. You may cross the line if necessary, provided the road is clear, to pass a stationary vehicle, or overtake a pedal cycle, horse or road maintenance vehicle, if they are travelling at 10 mph (16 km/h) or less.

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That is bang of out order. I mean, fancy shopping at Morrisons.

Could have been worse, could have been Netto . I haven't seen a police car stop anyone round here for months, last one was a kid on a moped with no silencer and he wanted stopping.

I wonder who would be blamed for allowing them to continue driving if an uninsured driver wrote off one of your cars - some people need taking off the road!

I suspect that they were checking for illegal drivers (i.e. no insurance/tax etc) if they were setup to tow vehicles away.

TBH im in favour of these steps, i mean we all (I hope) pay our yearly due to the insurance thieves, and yet it can all be in vain if you get hit by an uninsured driver.

I can remember speaking to one of the local trafic plod about ANPR checks (insurance etc) and he said they normally have to setup the checkpoint next to a superstore so that they have somewhere to put all the cars they stop there are so many allegedly it can be up to 1 in 10 cars around here which have either no tax or insurance

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yup - been happening in ipswich too.

the other morning they set up a trap on one of the busiest roads in town during rush hour! total chaos!