LORRY drivers ignored weight limits at several different locations on Oxfordshire’s roads, resulting in a series of fines.

The trading standards team at Oxfordshire County Council launched prosecutions following breaches of weight restrictions on roads and bridges, and sightings of overloaded vehicles.

Seven people were fined a total of £1,850 after they were stopped on different occasions earlier this year on the B4009 in Watlington, at Forest Road, Charlbury, at Haseley Road, Little Milton, on Woodstock Road, Yarnton, and in Marcham Road, Abingdon.

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All the cases were dealt with at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Richard Wightman, environmental protection unit team leader for Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team, said: “Weight restrictions are there for very good reasons, either to protect bridges that have become structurally weakened or because the use of particular roads by heavy goods vehicles is not suitable.

“It may be tempting for drivers to ignore such regulations for a short cut, but by doing so they are potentially putting other road users, or roads and bridges, at risk.”

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