Fined £660 for wheel dangers
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Loose wheelnuts have cost Mold Transport Services and one of the firm's drivers 1660 in fines and costs.
Geraint Glyn Jones and Glyn Foulkes Jones, trading as Mold Transport Services. of Bre Alun, Mold, arid driver Glyn Morris had denied using a vehicle in a dangerous condition but were convicted by Flintshire magistrates.
Vehicle examiner Phil Carson said that when he inspected the vehicle concerned he found that one wheel stud was missing and that the nuts on another two were Loose. He considered that the wheel could have come off the vehicle at any time.
Maintaining that there was no danger of the wheel becoming detached, David Jones, defending, said that two of the remaining seven wheelnuts were so tight that they had to be burnt off.
The magistrates fined each of the firm's partners £200 and Morris DM. They ordered all three defendants to pay £60 each towards prosecution costs.