£210 Fines for Ignoring Stop Notice
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)LEADING guilty at Wood Green
• (London) magistrates court last 7riday to 22 summonses for permitting ehicles to .carry goods whilst they were inder prohibition orders, Eric Donald ?Awards, haulage contractor, of the lritish Railways Goods Depot, Station toad, Wood Green, was fined a total of 210 and ordered to pay £44 2s. legal osts.
Eighteen of the summonses alleged hat, on dates in January, Edwards perrated a goods vehicle to be driven on he road carrying goods at a time whilst prohibition order under Section 184 of he Road Traffic Act, 1960, was in operaion in relation to the vehicle. The other summonses alleged similar offences in respect of another goods vehicle on a date in January and two dates in February.
Mr. John Haines, prosecuting, said a prohibition order had been made in respect of one vehicle on October 26, 1960, and in respect of the other on November 2, 1960. Edwards operated 10 vehicles, two of which were the subject of the summonses, and when a traffic examiner inspected the records of drivers at a later stage, it was perfectly clear to him that these two vehicles had been used in January and February of this year when the prohibition orders were still in force.