Police plan crack-down on anti-social drivers

That's the message from East Sussex Road Policing Department following its launch of Operation Crackdown.

The Sussex Police officers will be watching roads across the area that have been identified as anti-social driving hot-spots.

This has been done through the Force's Operation Crackdown website, which allows the public to report incidents of anti-social driving; if a vehicle index is reported on multiple occasions it automatically triggers background action.

The head of the Road Policing Unit, Superintendent Steve Barry, said: "This operation is not about persecuting the vast majority of law-abiding motoring public.

"It's about targeting the anti-social motorist, the deliberately aggressive driver, the drink driver, the disqualified driver and criminals who use cars.

"Annually around 35 people are killed and a further 340 are seriously injured in road traffic collisions on the roads of East Sussex and a major contributory factor in these collisions is dangerous, inconsiderate or careless driving.

"Careless and inconsiderate driving, particularly through inattention, is a major cause of serious injuries on the roads. It is important to reduce this by influencing driver behaviour; this will be done through increasing awareness of the risk and the effect of certain activities when driving, and also by enhanced enforcement."

An automatic number plate recognition 'hot list' of vehicles '“ including those which have had complaints made against them about their driving, suspicion of drink driving, and other anti-social matters '“ has been created.

This list will be live and monitored for the duration of the operation, which ends next Friday.

Police warn: "All vehicle-stops will be made in high visibility locations to maximise the potential impact of the enforcement activity on motorists and signage with messages such as ''another Anti-Social Driver Stopped '“ Don't Be Next' will be used where possible.

That's the message from East Sussex Road Policing Department following its launch of Operation Crackdown.

The Sussex Police officers will be watching roads across the area that have been identified as anti-social driving hot-spots.

This has been done through the Force's Operation Crackdown website, which allows the public to report incidents of anti-social driving; if a vehicle index is reported on multiple occasions it automatically triggers background action.

The head of the Road Policing Unit, Superintendent Steve Barry, said: "This operation is not about persecuting the vast majority of law-abiding motoring public.

"It's about targeting the anti-social motorist, the deliberately aggressive driver, the drink driver, the disqualified driver and criminals who use cars.

"Annually around 35 people are killed and a further 340 are seriously injured in road traffic collisions on the roads of East Sussex and a major contributory factor in these collisions is dangerous, inconsiderate or careless driving.

"Careless and inconsiderate driving, particularly through inattention, is a major cause of serious injuries on the roads. It is important to reduce this by influencing driver behaviour; this will be done through increasing awareness of the risk and the effect of certain activities when driving, and also by enhanced enforcement."

An automatic number plate recognition 'hot list' of vehicles '“ including those which have had complaints made against them about their driving, suspicion of drink driving, and other anti-social matters '“ has been created.

This list will be live and monitored for the duration of the operation, which ends next Friday.

Police warn: "All vehicle-stops will be made in high visibility locations to maximise the potential impact of the enforcement activity on motorists and signage with messages such as ''another Anti-Social Driver Stopped '“ Don't Be Next' will be used where possible.