Road Safety Speed Check Campaign

Nearly ninety drivers stopped in road safety check - Maidenhead

Thames Valley Police officers carried out two road safety checks in Maidenhead this week, targeting drivers using their mobile phones and people not wearing their seatbelts.

PC Bob Wade, Road Safety Constable for Berkshire East, along with Roads Policing Officers from Taplow were on the A4 in Maidenhead between 6pm and 8pm on 25th June 2008 and 8am and 10am today on 26th June 2008.

A total of 78 motorists were issued £30 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for not wearing their seatbelt. Another eight drivers were issued with FPNs of £60 and three penalty points for using their mobile phones while behind the wheel. One vehicle was seized as the driver had no insurance, he was also issued a FPN of £200 with six points on his licence.

PC Wade, who planned the checks, said: "It is disappointing to have so many motorists failing to wear their seatbelt. There is no excuse as the people caught are fully aware of the need to wear it. Even if they fail to understand the safety benefit, they should comply with the law. I have no sympathy to any driver that has their car seized for having no insurance and they would do well to reflect that they only have themselves to blame."

Speed Check initiative

On Monday 21st April 2008 the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Road Safety Section, joined forces with the Thames Valley Police Road Safety and Traffic Officers, to work on a joint speed initiative.

At locations across the Borough, where speeding drivers are a concern, officers set up Police Speed Check areas, to monitor speeds and in certain circumstance issue fixed penalty notices to those failing to comply with speed limits.

In just three hours 19 drivers where stopped at the roadside for exceeding 30mph speed limits. Of these 19 people, eleven people where given road safety advice by the Councils Road Safety Officers. This advice related to speeding, seatbelts and childseat restraints.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council is just one of the agencies that contribute to the Safer Roads Partnership.

Along with the other eight Highways Authorities in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire as well as The Thames Valley Police, Highways Agency, Crown Prosecution Service and her Majesty's Courts Services, the partnership is using dedicated road safety funding, to target roadside enforcement and to educate drivers about the dangers and risks involved with a variety of road traffic offences.  For more information see the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership website.