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Simpson cleared of insecure load
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• The defence costs of a driver employed by Joseph Hoyle Transport are to be paid Out of public funds, following his acquittal on a charge of using a vehicle with an insecure load last week.
Brian Simpson, of Crofton, Wakefield, denied using a vehicle whose load was not secured so that neither danger nor nuisance was likely to be caused, when he appeared before the Scunthorpe Magistrates.
Police Constable Barry Dowse said that in June he had stopped an attic driven by Simpson which was carrying 21 tonnes of bar steel, six metres long and of various widths. There had been no visible means of securing the load to the trailer's flatbed.
Dowse said the load should have been secured by chains or webbing straps..
For the defence, Michael Paterson said that Simpson had initially accepted a fixed-penalty notice but had retracted it after taking legal advice. He argued that the prosecution had failed to show that danger or nuisance had been, or was likely to be, caused by reason of the security of the load.