Nearly 100 motorists stopped in Nelson police operation (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Nearly 100 motorists stopped in Nelson police operation
5:00pm Wednesday 10th March 2010 in
NEARLY 100 motorists were stopped in a crackdown on dangerous or irresponsible drivers in Nelson.
Operation Peardrop is designed to give motorists a bitter taste of what life could hold if they don’t amend their driving habits and targets people not wearing seatbelts or using a mobile phone, as well as other offences.
The motorists were offered two choices, pay a fine and have three points on their licence or attend a presentation on driving at Nelson fire station.
School children also spoke to the drivers who were stopped to tell them the danger they were putting others in.
Of the motorists stopped, 40 opted for tickets, 40 were spoken to by school children and 15 attended a 45-minute presentation.
The presentation, on the risk and reality of accidents, was run by fire and police officers who deal first hand with such incidents.
Neighbourhood Policing Sergeant Damian Pemberton said: “Some motorists chose to pay the fine which is their choice but a significant proportion opted for the presentation.
“The presentation was very impactive and the officers delivering it were front line officers who regularly deal with road traffic collisions so they really knew what they were talking about.
“I am in no doubt that it will prove just as effective, perhaps more so, than a fine and penalty points.”
Between April 2008 and 2009, 969 people were killed or seriously injured on Lancashire’s roads, with a further 6,573 suffering minor injuries.
Steven Morgan, watch manager at Nelson Fire Station, said: “A number of these people would have been spared the misery of these injuries or have completely escaped injury if for example, they had been wearing seatbelts.
”We know from experience that the non wearing of seatbelts is an issue locally which is why we are initially targeting the Nelson area.”
Last year the Lancashire Telegraph launched a campaign to educate youngsters and their parents about the importance of belting up, while encouraging passengers and drivers to wear seatbelts however long, or short, a journey.
Police have vowed to continue to target motorists who continue to break the law.
Comments(25)
burner
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5:17pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Mikeee47
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5:33pm Wed 10 Mar 10
RAyzer wrote:Dosen't it say in the New advertised police pledge, someone will attend within 1 hour of calling the police,
message to the old bill......why does it take 3 phone calls or two days for you to attend a anti-social or burglary phone call,yet you can manage to have every other copper stood round targeting motorists??????????? ?id like an answer of a police person!!a lot of people are asking same question!!
Don't hold your breath Rayzer, it's all spin making us think they're doing a job, and How much did the Advert cost us the tax payer? Yeah we pay your wages. Do the job your paid to do,
Shane
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6:45pm Wed 10 Mar 10
burner wrote:Does this really warrant an answer?
Again, how come I can travel on a train at 140mph without a seatbelt?
burner
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6:54pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Chris P Bacon
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7:01pm Wed 10 Mar 10
RAyzer wrote:Message to RAyzer. How come you are so keen to demonstrate how thick you are on here?
message to the old bill......why does it take 3 phone calls or two days for you to attend a anti-social or burglary phone call,yet you can manage to have every other copper stood round targeting motorists???????????
?id like an answer of a police person!!a lot of people are asking same question!!
pip-pip
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7:11pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Not particularly against the excercise to remind motorists of their responsibilities but using children in such a way is a very tricky route to be taking. Didn't Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia make use of children in such a way.
Wellingtonia
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8:05pm Wed 10 Mar 10
katypri
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8:59pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Shane
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10:59pm Wed 10 Mar 10
cutthebull
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8:27am Thu 11 Mar 10
akon
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8:51am Thu 11 Mar 10
Oh, Billy Bullsh*t is back.
Comes on here ,spouts off then hides when his arguement is ripped to shreds.
Go & stick your head where it belongs .
lancastrian lass
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9:19am Thu 11 Mar 10
1 - yes drug dealing is prevalent in East Lancs just as it is in Liverpool, Wigan, Salford, are you trying to tell us that all those stopped were drug dealers???
2 - making suicide belts for their cousins? I didn't know that suicide belts were manufactured in Nelson, if you know something that the rest of us don't then please do disclose your information to the Special Branch of the Police who deal with terrorist threats, they will be out raiding houses like a shot even if they find nothing there...
3 - I will not even bother to respond to "does he even have the right to be in this country..."
4 - Insurance...it cannot be printed off the internet, the Police have a National Database which tells them each & every car's insurance status just by reading the plate, they do not need to hand out "producers" i.e. where the driver has to produce his insurance or other docs such as MOT
Next time think before you put a post out and stop showing us how ignorant you are...it's embarrassing for the indigenous community.
P.S. Akon stop being undemocratic by telling people to bog off on here....haha you hypocrite
burner
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9:26am Thu 11 Mar 10
akon
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10:04am Thu 11 Mar 10
Have you found the source of the out of date kipper smell yet?
Get a wash,dirty girl.......
burner
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10:11am Thu 11 Mar 10
ganja man
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10:26am Thu 11 Mar 10
Which guise are you operating under today? RAyzer, spyderleg??
AS for losing the argument, you have done so many times on here only to disappear.
Talk about the kettle calling the pot black!!
ganja man
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10:26am Thu 11 Mar 10
Which guise are you operating under today? RAyzer, spyderleg??
AS for losing the argument, you have done so many times on here only to disappear.
Talk about the kettle calling the pot black!!
Cool Lad
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11:20am Thu 11 Mar 10
ganja man wrote:Stop posting twice green ganja boy, as for akon he really cannot take defeat. Also why have you named yourself after an rnb singer who was filmed dancing with an underage girl. Is there something you're trying to hint to us?
Stop making lewd comments towards men and women on here, padiham's lowest , " a con".
Which guise are you operating under today? RAyzer, spyderleg??
AS for losing the argument, you have done so many times on here only to disappear.
Talk about the kettle calling the pot black!!
happycyclist
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11:25am Thu 11 Mar 10
burner wrote:Burner -there's a forum on the LT site for that, where people have those sort of arguments every day!
This is ace! It's no longer about "nearly 100 motorists in Nelson". It's a few strings of people having an argument on (un)related topics. THAT'S what makes this place such a good forum. Who needs Sky TV ? Long may this site prosper.
This isn't really a forum, but a comments page on a news item.
The forum is a lot more fun!
akon
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11:35am Thu 11 Mar 10
Cool -lad Ref the young black singer he has the cheek to use my name,ref the young girls ask ganja the unwashed, reader of the paedo comic searchlight !!
burner
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12:30pm Thu 11 Mar 10
ganja man
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1:14pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Read the articles in
www.searchlightmagaz
ine.com
by Sonia Gable
in the FIGHT against FASCISM and RACISM.
(it upsets " a con" and his party the truth exposed about them and their activities in this publication)
Happy reading!
MerlinTheVoiceofReason
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2:02pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Chris P Bacon wrote:I think he's demonstrated it exhaustively on here over a long period - there's nothing left to prove!
RAyzer wrote:Message to RAyzer. How come you are so keen to demonstrate how thick you are on here?
message to the old bill......why does it take 3 phone calls or two days for you to attend a anti-social or burglary phone call,yet you can manage to have every other copper stood round targeting motorists???????????
?id like an answer of a police person!!a lot of people are asking same question!!
Chris P Bacon
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7:47am Sun 14 Mar 10
akon wrote:A con. You are a loser. You couldn't contribute anything to an argument that served any purpose. It's a toss up who's the most vacuous; you or RAyzer. You're both major embarrassments to this forum.
Chris P Bacon, Colne
Oh, Billy Bullsh*t is back.
Comes on here ,spouts off then hides when his arguement is ripped to shreds.
Go & stick your head where it belongs .
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RAyzer says...
5:04pm Wed 10 Mar 10
?id like an answer of a police person!!a lot of people are asking same question!!