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£500,000 in penalties
.1o3tit1;:, i-3curku VOSA HAS COLLECTED more than £500,000 in deposit payments during the first quarter of its traffic enforcement graduated fixed penalties (GFPs) scheme.
It has also seized 800 vehicles.
A total of 11,000 graduated fixed penalties have been issued since 28 May, and of these, 60% were given to drivers of non-UK vehicles. Fines range from £30 to £200 per offence, which include overloading or mechanical defects.
Where a driver is unable to provide a satisfactory UK address, full payment is taken immediately as a deposit.
Karen Fan, GFP scheme manager at VOSA, says: "The results of this first quarter are encouraging. The scheme enables us to level the playing field for UK and foreign drivers. We have already started to see an improvement in compliance, and that is good news for operators, drivers, and road safety in general.
CM exclusively revealed, following a Freedom of Information request earlier this year, that VOSA took more than £80,000 in fines during its first 12 days of being allowed to issue GFPs (CM 16 July), with 88% of the revenue raised coming from drivers of foreign-registered vehicles.
• On 2 September, Essex Police stopped 23 truckers who were breaching drivers' hours or driving an unroadworthy vehicle. Two vehicles were seized and another was impounded by the UK Border Agency. The crackdown, called Operation: Mermaid, is a joint operation between UK police forces and VOSA to improve road safety.