Fine quashed • A Z1,000 fine imposed on Prestonbased C
9th May 1991, Page 26
9th May 1991
Page 26
Page 26, 9th May 1991
— Fine quashed • A Z1,000 fine imposed on Prestonbased C
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Law, Traffic Law, Punishments, Magistrate, Crown Court, Traffic Ticket, Justice, Law / Crime
Mayor for overloading a 7.5-tormer has been quashed on appeal, but an appeal by driver David Cowley against his £200 fine was rejected.
Both had pleaded guilty before Leyland magistrates to breaking the permitted gross weight of the vehicle by 11% and the back axle by 12%.
Preston Crown Court substituted the £500 fine for each offence with absolute discharges. But the judge said that the driver had been fully responsible for failing to look at a weighbridge ticket he had been given at Preston docks after picking up a load of palletised bitumen. The judge ordered him to pay £35 costs.