Drivers were at a standstill on the A9 at Dalnaspidal in Perthshire today due to blizzard conditions with snowploughs unable to help because they were stuck behind cars.
The rules on driving to exercise as people flock to Welsh mountains and beaches after Christmas
The rules under Alert Level 4 allow unlimited exercise, but there are a number of caveats
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Police have turned visitors away from the Brecon Beacons after hikers drove as far as 200 miles to walk in the snowy Welsh hills in defiance of Covid restrictions.
Although Wales is in lockdown, Dyfed-Powys police said one man drove from Hertfordshire in England to walk up Pen-y-Fan, the highest peak in southern Britain. Hertfordshire is under English tier 4 “stay at home” restrictions.
A minibus of people from a number of different households arrived from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, a drive of about 80 miles that would have taken two and a half hours.
Hundreds of people arrived on Monday and Tuesday and the force issued fixed penalty notices for some breaches, though many people turned around after seeing police officers in the area.
By Staff Reporter A BANNED driver who failed to stop for police, tried to blind officers in pursuit with strobe lights and threw items in front of their car to evade arrest has been jailed. Shaun Davies, of Blackwood in Gwent, put the lives of officers and other road users at risk when he drove erratically through the Lampeter area – speeding around blind bends and turning his headlights off. Officers from the Dyfed Powys Police’s Road Safety Unit described it as a miracle that nobody was not seriously injured or killed as a result of the 31-year-old’s reckless driving.
Man threw potatoes and tools at chasing police as he drove on wrong side of road with no headlights
Shaun Davies, who was already disqualified from driving, failed to stop for police and drove at speeds of up to 80mph
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