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Dangerous bankrupt disqualified for one year
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A BANKRUPT operator posing a "considerable danger to the public" has lost his licence and been disqualified from holding anew 0-licence for a year.
Geoffrey Davies, trading as GAD Groundworks & Building Contractors, of Baschurch, near Shrewsbury, with a licence for two vehicles, was called before West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Roger Seymour at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry.
Vehicle examiner Keith Aligrante said a vehicle driven by Davies was stopped in a check in November and given an immediate prohibition for two defective tyres, loose wheelnuts and a defective speed limiter.
Davies told a traffic examiner he had gone bankrupt last July and everything was now being run by his girlfriend. He admitted he was aware that one tyre was bald.During a maintenance investigation in January inspection records were found to be incomplete.There were only three records for one vehicle and four for the other. Over the past four years the initial pass rate at annual test was 50%, well below the national average. The prohibition rate over the past 12 months was 33%, including an 'S' marked prohibition.
The DTC said that in January Davies had written to say he had gone bankrupt in July 2004, that he had been allowed to continue to operate by the liquidator, but had recently ceased trading.
In April a new licence was granted to GAD Groundworks Ltd, the sole director of which was Charlotte Maddocks, whom he understood to be Davies' partner.
Davies had continued to operate in circumstances that clearly gave rise to considerable danger to the public. When the vehicle was stopped in a check it was in a dangerously unroadworthy condition and Davies had knowingly used it in that condition. One vehicle had no MoT certificate during 2003 and he assumed that vehicle had been used both out of test and without an excise licence.