Crime
Crime
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They’re up and running in France. First ‘noise’ cameras from the cops trialing on real roads and just one catches hundreds on it’s first Sunday ‘live’. Uh oh…
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It was nearly two months ago that we first brought you the news that the UK is to undergo trails of the so-called ‘acoustic cameras’ in the UK – new tech where microphone-enables roadside tech can pinpoint vehicles with loud exhausts. Now the same technology has gone on live trial in France. Sited in the…
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Get an Oxford DISC LOCK with your Motorcycle Live TICKET.
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Motorcycle Live and Oxford Products have joined forces for 2019 – and that means if you spend £25 on your ticket to the UK’s biggest bike show, you’ll get an Oxford HD MAX disc lock thrown in. In an attempt to help reduce motorcycle and scooter theft (and tackle the current crime sprees across the…
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You know it’s hot and getting hotter? Well…
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Here’s an odd post from the Brandenburg Police force in West Berlin, Germany. According to the officer involved, the man was given a ticket on decency grounds for this pull on Tuesday last week. His reason for scootering au natural was that it was just so damned hot… you can’t reason with this sort of…
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Got a loud pipe? Government reveals plans for sound ‘snooper’ tech trials in the UK to target noisy vehicles
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Road users who breach legal noise limits could end up with fines if trials of so-called ‘acoustic camera’ technology is successful. This news comes from the Department for Transport which has said that it will test the noise-detecting ‘cameras’ in a variety of locations around the country over the next seven months. According to the…
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VIDEO: German Police getting tough on bikers… What’s going on here?
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We’ve clocked this clip from German TV show, Achtung Kontrolle showing a biker getting his pride and joy confiscated – and it’s left us stumped. We can’t quite see what the problem is… Can you? Ok, so we know that you can have your bike confiscated in Germany if your exhaust is too loud –…
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Police officer faces the sack for ‘ramming’ moped rider DESPITE Met Police approving the tactic.
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A police officer is due before a disciplinary panel today, and could face the sack for carrying out ‘tactical contact’ by driving his vehicle into the path of a moped being ridden by a 17-year old suspected thief in South London. Despite the force authorising the robust tactic for reducing crime, Metropolitan PC Edwin Sutton…
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Nearly 1 in 3 drivers have MISSED motorway junctions because ‘The sign was obscured!’
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It’s not bad enough that motorcyclists have to contend with other road users doing things like using mobile phones, drink-driving or driving under the influence of drugs when out on British roads – there’s now a report that says a third of them are so dozy about driving on motorways that they MISS A JUNCTION…
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NEW device to CATCH drivers using mobile phones.
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Thames Valley and Hampshire Police are rolling out the use of mobile detection technology to find drivers using devices while behind the wheel. The technology works to show the police when motorists are using their phones – and then flashes a warning at the driver telling them to stop. The technology will not be used…
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VIDEO: Cops give scooter a damned good thrashing! Weirdest video you’ll see today.
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You don’t want to be parking your scooter behind a randomly-placed metal barrier in Chennai, India – not unless you want the local fuzz to get out a metal pole and give it a beating. Thankfully, some kind soul was on-hand to film such a thing happening and pass it on to our chums at…
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Dainese WINS airbag system decision against Alpinestars in Germany.
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On February 7th, the Munich Court of Appeal confirmed that Alpinestars’ Tech-Air Street airbag vest (for road use) and its Tech-Air Racing airbag vest (for track use and road), infringe the German part of Dainese’s European patent (EP 2 412 257 B1). The German Federal Patent Court previously confirmed the validity of Dainese’s patent in…
