Warwickshire Police stopped and checked 40 taxi drivers and their vehicles in Leamington and Warwick in a joint operation on 6 April 2024.
Warwickshire Police carry out taxi checks in Leamington and Warwick
Warwickshire Police stopped and checked 40 taxi drivers and their vehicles in Leamington and Warwick in a joint operation on 6 April 2024.
During 2023, the public submitted 152 dashcam, headcam or phone videos of drivers suspected of illegally using a mobile phone whilst driving to Warwickshire Police Op Snap to help make Warwickshire’s roads safer.
You are invited to join Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire road safety partnerships to make a united stand against road death and injury at Hartshill Hayes Country Park (CV10 0TE) for a guided walk on Friday 17 May at 1pm.
At the start of the new bike season, Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership attended two biker events over the weekend of 6 and 7 April to engage with bikers about bike maintenance and to encourage bikers to refresh their riding skills.
Warwickshire Police seized a record number of 1,425 uninsured vehicles across the county between January and December 2023 – an average of four vehicles every day – and a 9.4% increase in seizures over the previous year.
Warwickshire Police is delighted to welcome twenty newly trained volunteers to five new Community Speedwatch (CSW) groups in the county.
A thirty-three year old man from Bilston in the West Midlands was fined £660 and received 6 points on his licence after appearing before Warwickshire Magistrates Court on 26 March 2024 charged with failing to give information relating to the identity of the driver of his Ford Focus car that was caught speeding in Warwickshire on 26 September 2023.
Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership is urging the public to always wear a seatbelt as part of a four week operation to educate and catch drivers committing the ‘Fatal 4’ offences.
Police have released dashcam footage submitted to them through Operation Snap showing an incident of careless driving on 18 June last year near Kingsbury.
Officers responsible for processing speeding tickets in Warwickshire say it’s ‘bonkers’ the lengths that a small minority of drivers and vehicle owners will go to in an attempt to avoid prosecution.