Drivers Charged Under 1835 Act
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THREE lorry drivers summoned under I the 1835 Highways Act were given absolute discharges by Ormskirk magistrates last Friday after a police officer said it, was impossible for any vehicle over three tons weight to get into the Moss View hutted camp in Segar's Lane, Halsall, without the vehicle concerned being driven in such "a way that it mounted the footpath.
The lorry drivers, Joseph Glinka. Burnley Road, Ainsdale. Peter Cropper. A28 Canning Road, Southport, and Leslie Gerald Copeland, Salisbury Avenue, Litherland, were summoned for driving on the footpath. aftei a householder had complained of damage which had been caused to his fence.
The magistrates asked that the attention of West Lancashire R.D.C. highways department be drawn to the fact that lorry drivers had to mount the footpath 'whenever their vehicles entered or left the camp.