A dozen drivers who attended an unauthorised motoring event in Trafford have been fined a total of £12,873 in fines and costs orders in court. The men appeared at Stockport Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 7 August following prosecutions brought by Trafford Council’s Community Safety Team for breach of a Public Spaces Protection Order. The order prohibits people from attending unauthorised motoring events across Trafford and was brought into force following the death of a person at such an event in 2018, when a car left the road and collided with spectators watching the event.
The order makes it an offence to participate in such an event, allow a vehicle to be taken to such an event or to fail to identify the driver of a vehicle attending such an event. The vehicles attending the unauthorised event at Chill Factore in Trafford on December 16 last year were identified by ANPR cameras and through partnership with Greater Manchester Police. The registered keepers of those vehicles were issued with notices requiring them to identify the drivers of those vehicles and were issued with Penalty Notices of £100 for breaching the order.
More than 100 people who attended paid the penalty notice and were not subject to any further action. The court heard that the defendants whose cases were brought before the court had not paid the fixed penalty or identified the driver of it. In one case a driver pleaded guilty to the offence and having been given credit for his guilty plea, was fi.