Driving Offences around Corn Street
Over the past few months we have seen an increase in driving offences in the Corn Street, Clare Street and Small Street area in Bristol City Centre. By engaging with local businesses located in the area the feedback we received was that mainly delivery drivers operating mopeds were ignoring traffic signs and contravening local traffic orders.
Over the next few months you will see us in and around the location completing traffic operations to deter further offences taking place.
Actions
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24 April 2024
Police Officers from the Old City Docks Policing Team issued one Traffic Offence Report this evening to a rider of a moped who committed a road traffic offence.
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23 April 2024
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers from The Bridewell completed a short thirty minute operation this evening in the Corn Street area and seized one motorbike for having no insurance and issued four Traffic Offence Reports for driving in a pedestrianised area.
The rider of the seized motorbike as also reported for multiple other Road Traffic Offences.
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11 April 2024
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers conducted vehicle checks in the Old City Docks area this evening. During our patrols we encountered a moped rider who rode their moped over Gaol Ferry Bridge, narrowly avoiding members of the public.
The moped rider was found to have no valid insurance. Therefore, was issued with a Traffic Offence Report for multiple offences and a Section 59 warning. The moped was seized for having no insurance.
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10 April 2024
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers from both the Old City Docks and Clifton Neighbourhood Policing Teams issued five Traffic Offence Reports and three Section 59 warnings to both drivers of mopeds and a taxi driver for committing road traffic offences on Corn Street.
We were kindly supported by Portuguese speaking David from the Clifton team who assisted with educating and engaging with a number of the Portuguese speaking drivers that we encountered.
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9 April 2024
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers from the Old City Docks team issued one Traffic Offence Report and one Section 59 warning to a driver of a moped who committed a number of road traffic offences on Corn Street.
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3 April 2024
On Wednesday 03rd April 2024 Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers issued one Traffic Offence Report and one Section 59 warning to moped drivers on Corn Street.
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2 April 2024
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers completed a operation at lunchtime today and issued three Traffic Offence Reports and three Section 59 warnings to moped drivers causing driving offences in the Corn Street area.
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27 March 2024
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers completed patrols of the Corn Street and St. Stephens Street area of Bristol and issued three Traffic Offence Reports and three Section 59 warnings to riders of mopeds who were contravening the traffic order which is in place.
Speaking with local businesses in the area they state that the decrease in moped use in the area is enhancing their customers experience and welcome the positive action taken by Police.
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26 March 2024
On the evening of Tuesday 26th March 2024, Police Officers have carried out foot patrols in the area and issued one Traffic Offence Report to a moped driver. There is a clear decrease in moped use in the area, however, we will continue to do patrols in the area ensuring that there is not an increase in traffic offences in the area.
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25 March 2024
On Monday 25th March 2024, Police Officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team have carried at patrols in the area and issued five Traffic Offence Reports for the offence of driving in a pedestrianised area.
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27 February 2024
On the evening of Tuesday 27th February Police Offices completed an operation in the area which resulted in eleven Traffic Offence Reports being issues to a mixture of taxi drivers and moped riders. In addition to this one vehicle was seized for having no insurance and one arrest was made.
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26 February 2024
On the evening of Monday 26th February Police Officers issued a total of sixteen Traffic Offence Reports to drivers of mopeds.
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8 February 2024
This week the team issued a total of fifteen Traffic Offence Reports to drivers of mopeds.