15,667 caught speeding 'Prosperity' last year worry
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• Speeding offences by goods vehicle drivers totalled 15,667 last year according to Home Office statistics published last week.
They resulted in fines totalling £152,660. In 14,982 cases the offences were proved, with 191 drivers being disqualified and 14,710 having their licences endorsed.
There were 2116 offences of causing danger by reason of load of which 1594 were proved resulting in fines totalling £17,434.
Fines totalling £49,002 were imposed in respect of 4145 offences of exceeding maximum gross weight or axle weight and 4920 cases involving other weight and load offences, including insecure loads, resulted in fines amounting to £56,251.
There were 869 proven cases involving projecting loads, 973 for exceeding weight limits on specified roads and bridges, 212 for dropping offensive matter such as sand and gravel, and 65 for failing to notify the route of special loads.
Proven cases involving falsification of records with intent to deceive amounted to 1031, and there were 2259 cases, involving fines totalling £14,040 of failure to observe limits on hours of driving, duty or test requirements. • A prediction that with the development of the port of Great Yarmouth 1500 lorries a day one every 40 seconds — could drive along the sea front and destroy the holiday trade was made by Mr R. Delf, a member of the resort's employment committee last week.
Mr Delf criticized the move made earlier this year when heavy lorries were switched along Marine Parade en route to the docks. He called for a public meeting to discuss the situation before the town became snarled up.
Another member, Mr J. Cannel!, welcomed the development which , he said, would bring prosperity to the town and provide jobs for 52 weeks of the year. He thought heavy lorries on the front were acceptable and a fair price to pay. The holiday trade brought low paid work for only 13 weeks *a year and benefited a few.
Another member thought there was room for both industries if the roads could be improved to offer a better route to the docks and lorry parks could be provided away from the town centre. He pointed out that plans for such a road had been drawn up 12 years ago but had been blocked by "the powers that be".
Members agreed that a public meeting would be arranged.