Viking fined 500
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• Using a coach to carry schoolchildren while it was still subject to a prohibition notice cost Ayrshire coach operator George Martin, trading as Viking Coaches, 2500 in fines.
Appearing before Greenock Sheriff's Court, Martin, of Nelson Street, Largs, admitted using the vehicle while a prohibition was in force, with a defective windscreen wiper and defective brakes, and in a dangerous condition.
The driver of the vehicle, Carolyn Ashton, of Mossiel Road, Saltcoats, admitted using the vehicle with a defective windscreen wiper and with defective brakes. She denied knowingly using it when a prohibi
tion was in force and using it in a dangerous condition. Those pleas were accepted by the prosecution. Sentencing was adjourned until October for production of Ashton's driving licence.
The Sheriff was told that in December the coach had been given an immediate prohibition notice for 11 defects, the most serious of which were defective brakes and two bald tyres.
For Martin, it was said that the brake defect was one that could not be detected without a rolling-road brake tester, which he did not have. The driver had taken the wrong coach out on the day that it was stopped while carrying schoolchildren: there had been two other coaches in the yard which she could have used.