Snow: Police stop-checks on motorists and cyclists in East Yorkshire as winter weather bites
Does your vehicle have a faulty light? Are the tyres legal and do you have enough water in your washers?
These are the type of things Humberside Police will be looking out for as part of their winter 2013 casualty reduction campaign.
The force has launched the initiative to check the condition of road vehicles with particular emphasis on lighting, tyres, washers, wipers, windscreen and window tints and brake defects.
The aim is to reduce the number of collisions, particularly those involving fatal and serious injury, by making positive changes to the attitude and behaviour of road users through a combination of education and enforcement.
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Throughout this month there will be an increase in high-visibility policing on the roads. The aim is to disrupt, prevent and detect criminal activity, reduce collisions and reassure the public.
The campaign will include static road checks and random inspections. Drivers will be given a Winter Driving leaflet.
Pedal cycles, as well as cars and other vehicles, will come under scrutiny and advice will be given to cyclists about the importance of high-visibility clothing. The advice to cyclists is "Be Safe, Be Seen".
Adverse weather conditions during the winter months have a direct effect on drivers. Ice, snow, fog, poor visibility and heavy rain can all play their part in some way towards being the cause of collisions.
Traffic management inspector Roger Mitchell said: "The message for this year continues to be the same as statistics show that most of the serious crashes, where someone is either killed or is seriously injured, occur when road conditions are slippery due to adverse weather, and because drivers do not adapt their speed appropriately.
"What we do find is that many motorists drive too fast and too close to vehicles in front of them when road conditions are slippery either because of rain, ice or snow. It takes a lot longer to stop when braking in the wet and drivers do not leave themselves a big enough gap to avoid the vehicle in front.
"The figures for last year are not yet available but in 2011, there were a total of 474 people who sustained fatal or serious injuries as a result of a road traffic collisions on the road across Humberside. This is the lowest number of people injured ever recorded for Humberside Police.
"This year we are not only stopping vehicles but also those people who use pedal cycles. Cyclists often do not have the correct high-visibility clothing on and the lights on their bicycles may not be visible to motorists, which can often result in a collision."
Comments
by Adam089
Friday, January 18 2013, 9:30AM
“Doesn't really help that washer nozzles are sometimes frozen solid in this weather. Mine were blocked to high heaven this morning and the lorries were kicking up all that mud and filth on the motorway - my screen was covered, but could I do anything about it? Could I heck!”
by loubylou116
Friday, January 18 2013, 9:29AM
“@propforward08 - Don't be so daft. As if a roadside check by the police constitutes a thorough MOT test. D'oh!”
by bewildered1
Friday, January 18 2013, 9:14AM
“Traffic management inspector Roger Mitchell said: "The message for this year continues to be the same as statistics show that most of the serious crashes, where someone is either killed or is seriously injured, occur when road conditions are slippery due to adverse weather, and because drivers do not adapt their speed appropriately."
Any chance of a reference or link to the source of the statistics please?
I have looked at several which suggest that November is the worst month for accidents so these campaigns should perhaps begin in October. After all that is where most people die are killed (as opposed to dying from natural causes). II see from the stats that Friday rush hour is the worst time of the week for road accidents as people try to get a flying start to the weekend.
Well done to the authorities for getting the casualties rates down.”
by propforward08
Friday, January 18 2013, 9:08AM
“So if, after getting stopped and wasting the vast majority of decent law abiding motorists time, they find absolutely nothing wrong with your vehicle will they issue an updated MOT certificate to save us all a bit of cash???”
by ssmith648
Friday, January 18 2013, 8:42AM
“they've nothing else better to do , he looks like he s lost a quid”
by AishaDelaney
Friday, January 18 2013, 8:37AM
“Cyclists often do not have the correct high-visibility clothing on.
It's not a legal requirement to wear hi-vis.”
by loubylou116
Friday, January 18 2013, 8:24AM
“Good. The amount of drivers I have seen in dark/bad conditions with only one headlight working or none on at all is just plain dangerous. If its not fixed, don't drive it. Don't tell me the 'cost of repairing them is too much". Bulbs are a couple of quid, as is windscreen washer fluid and new wiper blades. Its just pure laziness. So yes these motorists do need fining.”
by rich99
Friday, January 18 2013, 7:43AM
“oh right another way to catch out the motorist, maybe lazy plod should catch some real criminals”