Trailer was moved by wrong van
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1 • Kennedy Construction Group has been ordered to pay 2755 in fines and costs after one of its employees used a trailer contrary to instructions. The company pleaded guilty before Newbury magistrates to using the trailer in a dangerous condition, with defective brakes, defective direction indicators and defective stop lights.
Prosecuting, David Pomphrey said that a Ford Transit towing a two-axled trailer had been stopped at the Chieveley Service Area on the A34. The stop lights and direction indicators on the trailer did not work as they were not connected to the towing vehicle. The break-away chain was not fitted to the trailer and the handbrake did not work. The trailer was also displaying a different registration plate to that on the towing vehicle. For Kennedy Construction, Chris Butterfield said that the trailer had been moved contrary to instructions. It had been parked at a construction site and was meant to have been moved by a different vehicle—hence the different registration plates.