Waterworth warns driver in fatal crash • North Eastern Traffic
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Commissioner Keith Waterworth is warning operators who encourage drivers to speed that he will not tolerate "that kind of conspiracy" while he remains a Traffic Commissioner.
Jan Clarkson, a driver employed by White Rose Transport, of York, appeared before Waterworth following his involvement in a fatal accident. Clarkson had failed to avoid a stationary car waiting to turn right and swerved into the opposite carriageway where he collided with a car, killing the driver.
Clarkson, who had also been given a fixed penalty notice for speeding in a heavy goods vehicle in February 1997—the same month as the fatal accident— told the Commissioner that he had been a lorry driver for 35 years and those were his only two convictions.
Waterworth said what concerned him most was that there had been two instances of speeding. It was beyond the realms of possibility that Clarkson had been caught on the only two occasions he had been speeding, he pointed out.
Waterworth warned Clarkson about his future conduct but added that he had a bee in his bonnet about speeding.
He said that every so often he had a purge on operators. Clarkson's job was to stick within the speed limits: it was one of the obligations that came with an HGV licence.