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Dangerous overload attrads £2,000 fine
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BARKING MAGISTRATES have levied more than £2,000 in fines and costs on an Essex operator guilty of running a dangerously overloaded vehicle. And because it was not a limited company a partner has accrued points on his licence. even though he was not the driver.
Patrick and John Kehoe and Christopher Davies, trading as Essex Plant & Demolition, of Wickford, had earlier pleaded guilty to exceeding the maximum permitted gross weight, permitted compensating axle weight, and using a vehicle in a dangerous condition (CM 8 July).The magistrates adjourned sentencing so all three defendants could be dealt with simultaneously.
Each of the three partners was fined £500 and ordered to pay £200 prosecution costs. Additionally, the driving licence held by Patrick Kehoe was endorsed with three penalty points.
The driver of the vehicle, Bobbie Spink, of Norwood Road, Cheshunt, had pleaded guilty to like offences. He was fined £200 and had his driving licence endorsed with three penalty points.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, said the permitted gross weight of 32,000kg was exceeded by 19.34%, some 6,190kg. The maximum permitted third and fourth rear compensating axle's weight of 19,000kg was exceeded by 31.89%, some 6,060kg.The gross design weight of the vehicle of 33,000kg was exceeded by 15.72%,some 5,190kg.
Such excesses increase in the braking distance required to stop the vehicle at any speed.The vehicle's suspension, steering tyres, springs, brakes and chassis were not designed to cope with an excess of that magnitude. For all four defendants, Jeremy Fear told the court that none of them had been aware that the vehicle was overloaded at all.
In imposing the fines, the magistrates indicated that the court took these particular offences very seriously, saying the vehicle would have taken a considerable distance in which to stop.