Bridelways now safer

Get off the cyclepath! (well, bridleway, anyway).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/d...re/3105709.stm

4x4 drivers fined under new law
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New laws control off-road driving

Two Derby motorists have become the first in the country to be prosecuting
under new laws governing 4x4 vehicles, say police.

The fines have come about because of new police powers that allow them to
prosecute drivers who flout the laws.

Darren Lee Cook, 36, of Challis Avenue, Chaddesden and Robert William
Laybram, 21, of Lloyd Street in Derby, were caught driving their 4x4
vehicles down a public bridleway near Overton Hall in Ashover on March 2002.

The pair were fined £100 each plus £50 in costs by Chesterfield Magistrates
Court.

It is the first time that Derbyshire Police have used their new powers under
the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 to bring a road traffic
prosecution for misusing a public bridleway.

They believe it is also the first prosecution of this kind in the country.



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Guy
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