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Maintenance blitz
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• A police blitz on the condition of PSVs in East Lancashire has led to some bus and coach operators appearing before Blackburn Magistrates.
LI Richard Hilliard, trading as Accrington Coachways, of Clayton-le-Moors, was convicted of using a vehicle with dangerous parts and of using another with defective brakes. Sentence was adjourned until April, when the magistrates will consider allegations that Hilliard used two other vehicles with defective brakes and lights and dangerous parts.
LI Bolton Coachways was fined £800 with £15 costs after admitting using a coach with dangerous parts, improperly adjusted and maintained steering and brakes, no fire extinguisher and a locked rear emergency door.
LII J&F Aspden of Blackburn was cleared of using a vehicle when the emergency exit was unnecessarily obstructed, after it was argued that the company had been wrongly charged.
Ei Raymond and Mary Pilkington, trading as Pilkington's Coaches, of Accrington, were convicted in their absence of using a vehicle with dangerous parts, improperly maintained and adjusted steering and brakes, and a defective silencer. They were each fined £300 and their driving licences were endorsed.
Cases involving two other operators were adjourned. They were: John Battrick and Margaret Brown, trading as M & E Coaches, of Rishton, accused of using a PSV with defective brakes and dangerous parts; and John Reeves, of Chorley, accused of using a PSV with defective brakes, defective steering, a defective silencer and dangerous parts.