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Careless driver banned by Bell

17th October 2002
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A Carlisle truck driver with a four-year history of crashes, careless driving and convictions for tachograph offences has been banned from driving Hffils ter five years by North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.

When Barry Fearn, who works for LGH Logistics (CM 15-21 August). appeared before the TC, she was told that in 1998 he

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had been convicted of passing through a red light. In March 200(1 he was convicted of drivIN without due care, and in October of that year he was involved in an accident In the Netherlands, where he ran into a ditch and wrote off his vehicle. In March 2001 he failed to produce a tachograph record to police and an examination of his charts for that month revealed 12 hours and tacho offences. In June 2001 a check by a traffic examiner revealed more of these offences.

In January Foam n was involved in an accident in Cambridgeshire when he ran into another HUY. When police examined his vehicle there was no chart in the tachograph. Foamn had told them that he had stopped for a cup of tea shortly before the widen and checked his tachograph record so per flaps he had not closed the head properp lie told the TC that he had left LOH an had "a dream of a job", adding that i would be hard for him to find anythin else at his age.

Revoking Foam's HGli licence, Bell sai his conduct as a professional driver ha been questioned seven times in fou years. It was a serious case and th action taken had to reflect that serious ness. The law did not allow her to take int account the effect of revocation on th driver's personal circumstances.


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