Over 50 motorists have been stopped and dealt with by Police today (Wednesday) as part of a day of action by mainland roads policing officers, with 2 drivers arrested for drug driving.
The operation began early this morning with marked and unmarked vehicles being utilised, as well as 4 motorcycles.
A number of offences were identified by officers on the prowl including speeding, insecure loads, excessive tints, illegal number plates, no seatbelts and the use of mobile phones at the wheel.
In less than 12 hours some 50 drivers were found to be at fault in some regard.
As a result of today’s action 2 people are in custody this evening on suspicion of drug driving.
2 vehicles have been seized and taken off the road.
Yet three easy to spot AT THE MOMENT ethnics are still not caught after assaulting girls in Newport and breaking one’s wrist.
Imagine IF that was your daughter being terrified at the hands of creatures that didn’t ought to be here
Seems our Grandparents may have been right in keeping them at arms length if this is what they do after being given a safe place to live
Need hanging then deportation of the remains
E P was right.
Wholly agree with these campaigns to improve safety on our roads….but illegal number plates? I think the resources we taxpayers pay for could be better used combating more serious villainy.
Saddos who rearrange their plates so it reads IOW should have the death penalty.
ralmao how pathetic
Thanks then…. anpr reads them. Never had a problem at the ferry and the police can read it and proud of the island
Driver who killed a child in a hit and run could not be found due to altered number plates.
Why NOT illegal number plates…?? What is wrong with you ?? Let people get away with illegal number plates.. what else they getting away with ? Wrong exhaust, wrong tyres, bald tyres.. maybe… But illegal plates, is a good reason to pull a vehicle and check it and driver.. Rules and laws are there for a reason. Which believe it or not is for the protection /safety of others. If ANPR cannot read your number plate, you could be a drunk. on drugs, thief, murderer, or car could be stolen…. the list goes on.. . illegal number plates could make an oncoming driver take eyes off the road for a better look, ‘crash’ … same with the idiots that have blue lights lit on front of vehicles.. illegal.. and NOT insured.. !!
Nice one ! About time the idiots out there were caught .. keep it up … might want to look at the folk who play around with their number plates to make them into their name or most popular IOW – don’t they realise that an insurance company will use this as an excuse not to pay out.
same goes for those with blue lights lit, front of vehicle on public roads. Dangerous as makes other drivers turn and look…taking their thoughts and eyes off their travel..
It’s long overdue for the police to deal with the huge number of illegal number plates.
Why ?
It’s not as if it affects anyone’s safety
Speeding – yes,
Phone while driving – yes
Drink & Drug driving – yes
No licence, insurance or tax – yes
Insecure load – possibly (although the example given is doubtful)
Driving over width vehicles down width restricted lanes (& forcing pedestrians in a ditch) – definitely a safety issue, but not something they can be bothered with policing.
But a number plate, with an extra space,… that doesn’t stop anyone (unless you’re really thick) reading it – unlike all the above, does not affect safety !, so why waste resources on it (or is just to use it as a money makign excercise)
You are the ‘Thick’ one… you think it looks cool… ok, so does a driver coming towards you, that driver takes his mind and eyes off ‘ his’ pathway ( road) whilst he admires your number plates… hey and maybe you have blue lights lit in front of yours too.. / So whilst that drivers eyes are diverted in your direction, how would that driver see the child that just stepped off the curb… or the car that stopped in front of him.. accident, caused by YOU, even though you were on other side of road !!!!
You are the IDIOT… THINK about road safety and other road users… stop admiring yourself..
Can affect peoples safety. If an ANPR camera cannot read the plate, it won’t find that the vehicle is untaxed. If it’s untaxed it almost certainly won’t be insured and the back wheel may be ready to fall off because it almost certainly won’t have been MOT’d.
Why is it all about ‘safety’? The Police were patrolling the Island and pulling illegal vehicles and drivers. IF laws were broken then why should they be allowed to pick and choose who gets punished and who gets let off? The Police are under greater scrutiny these days and suggesting they can pick and choose what laws they enforce is an insult to the honest ones. IF the drivers want to use the excuse that it doesn’t hurt anyone then the CPS will decide whether to go to court, not the Police.
. Most and definitely Iow one’s can be read by ANPR
How is that dirt on the back of a tipper truck an insecure load?
It wasn’t tied down
Well, duh!
Should be covered by a tarp to it doesn’t blow crap over whats behind them.
Have to agree with you there. It would never have been able to fall over the side because the quantity didn’t even cover the base.
That’s the most work the Isle of wight police have done in 12 hours then they did in the whole of 2022
Read the post again……….mainland unit with marked, unmarked cars and motorbikes. The island doesn’t have Police bikes permanently based here. But this operation was very successful and we should be grateful that so many were caught. Hopefully! the law breakers will have learnt a lesson!!!!!????
I stand corrected then, mainland police to sort the problem out so Isle police do nothing, genius
Mainland Police done the work.
Well done to them
Not before time, this needs to go on for at least 12 months to make a difference. Well done to our police, keep up the good work, and clean up our roads…
Are we supposed to be impressed by this?
Of course…….why do you ask? Are you not grateful that so many law breakers have been caught?
Only the intelligent.
Obviously short of funds .how about the pot smokers who walk down the roads and stink the buses out.
One deserves to be taken off the road with IOW in their number plate. Why on earth would one feel that is necessary? Do they think they are big fish in a small pond, large stool in a sewer more like.
No stops for red light jumping? The most common practice.
Yes, never a good idea to take off to quickly when the lights go green, there will always be some idiot still coming through on a red.
For temp lights at night it is fine.
Yet they can’t find enough officers to patrol the streets at night.
Instead were persecuted on the roads while children, migrants and other undesirables roam our streets sexually abusing women sticking two fingers up at the law.
Let’s hit those targets by targing motorists instead of solving serious crimes.
Well done can’t wait for the council tax hike with all the great work they’re doing.
The law is the law… how would you feel if you were hit by some stoner who jumped a red light whilst on his phone???
Should call yourself prince racist. Sounds like you were also one of these people who thinks the rules of the road does not apply to them.
Let’s hope that none of your family get serious injuries by all these illegal drivers with your attitude I think we need to thank the Police NOT Criticise them.
Whooooo hoooooo! Bloody good job. As I keep saying, ‘too many, have been getting away with too much, for too long’.
Great job to the mainland Road Policing Unit. Keep it going.
disillusioned…..
You must be partially sighted to the shite that parks outside KFC and BK in Newport frequently on double yellows… whilst lining up their next victim……
Dirt on the back of a tipper an unsecured load? Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous. They’ll stop you for breathing next!
You put a tarp over it. Anyone with an IQ higher than 80 can see that.
How does that make any difference,it’s soil not sawdust blowing in the wind,more like tail gate was not attached I think rather than soil or every truck would be same.
Yes, the real fred and in-the-loop clearly suffer from the pitifully low IQ that they want to accuse others of having if they think that dirt like that is going to be blowing out of the back of the tipper as it travels along. Haters like them who only know how to be abusive just get ignored in the end.
So if you put a rope over the dirt, will it no longer be insecure
Are you actually that dumb?
You put a fecking tarp over it and tie it down. Obvious to anyone with an IQ greater than yours, the pr@T driving that van and your mentally challenged upvoters.
Unsecured load?…. What soil on truck, how else you ment to do it then? Put a ratchet strap over it
Anyone with more than one brain cell would know that you cover it with a tarpaulin or similar to stop it blowing out of the back and into the faces/windscreens of following traffic.
Mesh Netting .
Try tarpaulin!
I believe you’re supposed to cover it with a tarpaulin or something if, for no other reason, than you’ll probably lose a lot of the load whilst driving along at 30 or 40 mph. Ok, not the most serious crime and I’d rather the police had a ‘Day of action’ every day, not just once a year or when ever.
Cover it with a tarp
“An alleged insecure load – dirt on the back of a tipper truck”
OK officer I’ll strap it down, sorry about that :/
There seems there are more inconsiderate drivers than I thought. How many drivers with mobile phones could use hands free /blue tooth if such an important call, as a lot of cars now have it, or do not know how to use it.
most drivers seem to be brain dead….. crawling along well below the speed limit – even if conditions are perfect…. it seems 38 in a 60 applies……… and 27 in a 40….. and 24 in a 30 seems to be the safe bet…. retest and pull over people that hold up traffic like this – it`s also an offence if any keyboard warriors care to research!
moving hazard – well below the speed limit
Only a Numpty would use a mobile while driving, so many
Numpties on our Island Roads.
5 year Ban for using a Mobile will STOP them, then if they break the law and drive whilst
Disqualified.
Jail time.
Make the Island a safe place.
was this on the island or the mainland
Phew… sure glad I wasn’t on the road driving it like I stole it as usual lul…
All for a reaction. Total twat you are. If you do ‘drive it like you stole it’ I hope to God you don’t kill any innocent road users. People like you should never be given a licence.
Except the last thing a real car thief would do is draw attention to themselves by driving like a moron.
It takes the spotlight a way from the MET
Well done, come back soon. There are loads of illegally spaced number plates, illegal fonts and illegal plate sizes. This may seem trivial but indicates a disregard for the law, and illegal plates are often connected to other offences. The font and layout of number plates is specified in law to enable them to be read by ANPR cameras, and speed cameras, essential for law enforcement.
Some plates are even illegally coated to defeat the cameras, they have an uneven surface and look duller than normal, see how many you can spot !
As for the use of hand held phones, an absolute NO NO – dob them in if you see them.
I agree with Booglebob, red light jumping needs a clamp down too, very common.
Well done, keep it up. (No wish to see you anytime soon.)
Not many then,at least 8/10 officers over 12hrs. That’s like one driver each every 2/3hrs !. Must be more to truck insecure load , or every Island Roads lorry would be included. I can see probably 5/6 number plates alone in an hour.
Tip of the iceberg. Next time you walk down the street how many cars got bold tyres.
Bald not bold that’s a washing detergent or someone very brave
Or have no MOT
What a waste of time
So many Companies including Island Roads and other Utility companies
Tow equipment showing different Number plates to the actual vehicle they are
driving.
Park a Car in West Street and catch all the vehicles Turning into the
NO Right Turn Road from Brading High Street.
Park a Car in West Street and catch all the vehicles Turning into the
NO Right Turn Road from Brading High Street.
absolutely hammering the tax paying motorists…. as usual…..
what about the rapists, illegals, and undesirables|? or now is that hate speech??????
oh you can get tax free fax at Raj`s premier shop illegally imported ( like the rest of UK life) at the going rate but tax evasion seems to be rife like the rest of the crimes also by the Police. 3 a day CHARGED with rape and other offences…… God knows what the trough feeders really do get away with!!!!
Glad they stopped one of the many who think they can buy a cheap plate like AA10 WAA for example and mis-space it to be AA IOW AA. Too many about!! Good job let’s catch ‘em all
When I see an IOW plate I read it as “I’m a wanka with more money than brains”.
DL = Dopey Local
HW = Half Wit
Personalised Plate = Dipstick
LMAO……Best comment of the month imo.
Sadly the police cannot be everywhere at the same time… I think this was a good job, warned a few drivers and caught some too.. one thing at a time…. I hope the police do this practice again and often, clear the roads of the bad, the drugged and drunk drivers. Which over time will make our roads safe again. Fed up of hearing about car crashes everyday… BAD drivers.. they do not look or care about anyone else. Would be so nice if drivers could use their indicators too…before they brake, so those in front and behind have a clue as to what is happening… so come on drivers, give us a chance !! And please, slow down and stop for RED lights.
so our useless lot coud’nt do it then..
that poor dirt in tuck what did it do to you..pathetic..
Great result, hopefully more days like this to catch unlawful and dangerous driving.
Perhaps illegal parking could be on the agenda and driving whilst on a mobile phone
Cannot believe the IOW community hasn’t identified those disgraceful people who attacked the ladies on Saturday
Absolute bellends. Meanwhile in the Met, 1100 serving police officers suspended or under investigation for serious sexual offences or assault. Including murder and rape. Google it. Zero respect for these bullies in uniform.
If that dirt not been above the height of the sides he / she prob been Ok ,as could visually look like it’s overloaded ,rather than being blown off the truck