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Driver does his nut and bolts after truck tyre goes boom
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A DRIVER WHO failed tostop after a tyre exploded in a test station where he was delivering stone said he had panicked.
Peter Williams, of Chi rk, who was fined £250 by Wrexham Magistrates after he admitted using a vehicle with a defective tyre (CM 20 July), had been called before Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon.
The TC said a traffic examiner reported that Williams was working for Barry Griffiths Haulage when he delivered a load of stone to the goods vehicle test station at Llay.There was a loud bang suggesting a tyre had explodeckWilliams tipped his load and drove out onto the road.The vehicle examiner followed him out of the test station in a van, slopped him and took him hack.
Williams said he drove away because he knew the vehicle could not be worked on in the test station. After a prohibition notice was issued he was allowed to drive to a fitters where the lyre was changed. Asked why he had driven out of the test station, Williams said he had panicked because it was a test station.The TC told him that if he was to continue to he a lorry driver, panicking was not the thing to do.
Williams said that he had learnt from the incident and had worried non-stop that he would lose his licence.
In warning Williams, the TC pointed out that warnings from its did not get written off after so many years, but remained on a driver's record.