‘Nightmare Weekends’ since ’50 cars cause hell’ in Midland Dual Carriageway

MP wants more difficult sanctions for drivers who use ‘ghost’ numbers to stop the cameras that identify them

Kenrick way ‘is regularly used as a racing runway’(Image: Brochure)

Street corridors who hide their car registration number of the cameras have been “rushed,” said a deputy of Midland while presenting plans to address the plates of the numerous “Ghost”.

Sarah Coombes urged parliamentarians to support new fines of £ 1,000 and six -point fines, if drivers obscure their plates with reflective coatings so that application cameras cannot read them.

West Bromwich Deputy Labor also suggested that the draft Law on Vehicle Registry (Review) could bring vehicle seizures or licenses for criminals.

She told the commons: “When I chose myself, I did not expect to be a road safety activist, but since I became a deputy of West Bromwich, a family after family had come to me to have lost a husband or a mother or a son through the dangerous driving of other people.

“Our roads are used by millions of people every day. They are vital for our communities, our economy and to keep us connected, and most people drive safely and are only trying to take their children to school, work or do the weekly store.

“But there are some selfish people who use our paths as racing clues, who do not care about anything to risk the lives of other people and who evade capture using plates of numbers ‘ghost’ dubious”.

Mrs. Coombes described “nightmare cars that cause hell for local residents on Fridays and Saturday nights when up to 50 cars converge” in the Double roadway area of Kenrick Way of West Bromwich.

She said that West Midlands had “more difficult to catch these dangerous drivers due to the increase in ghost plates or stealth plates.”

The deputy explained that these plaques are “normal” to the human eye, but they have a “reflective coating on them, or have been interfered in some way, which makes them illegible for infrared police velocity chambers on our roads.”

The drivers can buy them for only £ 30 online, and face a fine of £ 100 if they are caught using them on the roads, without penalty points.

“That is less than you get for a ticket for speeding,” Mrs. Coombes continued, and added: “Then, for those who want to drive recklessly on our roads or commit crimes still worse, why wouldn’t you do it when the penalty is so small?”

When requesting a review of the “ghost” plaque through the bill, Mrs. Coombes said: “A fine of £ 1,000 with the threat of six penalty points, potentially even the seizure of vehicles or the disqualification of the license, those would be ways of repressing the use and supply of ghost plates.”

She said: “The drivers who use these ghost plaques have been put under the radar for too long, but now they have been rumbled and it is time to take energetic measures against them.”

The bill will list for a second reading on March 7.

Before the parliamentarians listen to Mrs. Coombes’s speech, a government spokesman said: “We are committed to reducing the number of those killed and wounded on our roads.

“From the general elections, the Labor Government has begun to work in a new road safety strategy, the first in more than a decade. The ministers will share more details of the strategy in due time. “