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As many of you are aware there have been a number of Road Traffic Collisions on The Snake Pass over the last year, sadly with many of these resulting in serious injuries and fatalities. We have asked the local community what their main issues are and understandably, Anti Social Behaviour involving Motorbikes and Cars came out as one of the main concerns. In response to these concerns, your local Safer Neighbourhood Team conducted a Traffic Operation on Saturday 2nd August to tackle road crime, ASB bikes and motor vehicles.
As a result, 105 motorbikes and 140 cars were stopped on the A57. Officers checked the compliance of all these vehicles with The Road Traffic Act whilst also conducting speed checks, taking a zero tolerance approach to offending vehicles; resulting in the following:
11 x tickets given for non-compliant number plates
1 x vehicle seized for no driving license / valid insurance
1 x coach turned around due to breaching 7.5T weight restriction
Further to this tickets were also given for speeding offences and advice given to parents of children with incorrectly fitting seatbelts.
We will be conducting further traffic operations like this at various locations around the high peak, as we continue our zero tolerance approach to motorists who don't comply with the law and use our roads as race tracks.
We would like to thank everyone who stopped for these checks and the positive feedback we received from both motorists and residents throughout the day. 
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