Car clampdown sees rogue motorists caught

Police officers in Somerset have come down hard on drivers who continue to break the law on the roads, it has been reported.

According to the Somerset County Gazette, 84 cars were pulled up by officers as part of the Operation Utah initiative.

The local constabulary used automatic number plate technology in order to catch out those breaking the law, it added.

Such hardware involves the scanning of vehicles registrations which are then cross-checked against a police database.

It may now be that those convicted face higher car insurance policies as cover companies view them as a bigger threat on the roads.

"We have managed to stop a number of vehicles and we look to catch travelling criminals and cross-border criminals," commented a police official.

This comes as Hightown Infant and Junior School Travel Plan Committee has written to authorities in an effort to get them to employ a 20 mph limit on a busy road close to two schools.



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