• Skip to content
  • Websites in the network
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
 
  • Log in
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Police Jargon
Herts Past Policing
Herts Past Policing
Recording life on the beat in Hertfordshire
  • Home
  • Police History
  • Crimes & Incidents
  • Document collection
  • Photos
  • Learning Resources
  • Contribute
  • Like us on Facebook
  • See our Historypin page
You are here: Home>Crimes and Incidents>Traffic Offences

Traffic Offences

  • Burch, William and Silcock, Anthony, Constables : fatal road accident
    Burch, William and Silcock, Anthony, Constables : fatal road accident
    Constables Burch and Silcock killed in a traffic incident in April 1960.
    Read more
  • Butcher's drive costs £120
    Butcher's drive costs £120
    Injuries sustained through the negligent driving of a horse and trap, whereby Reeve was thrown out.
    Read more
  • Candle in the wind
    Candle in the wind
    Herbert Trevail, was charged with driving a cart without a light.
    Read more
  • Car obstruction
    Car obstruction
    Highway obstructed for two hours.
    Read more
  • Caught in a trap
    Caught in a trap
    Edward Newton of Enfield Lock faced a charge of drink driving.
    Read more
  • Charge against a military motorist dismissed
    Charge against a military motorist dismissed
    George William Impey, was charged with driving a motor-car in a manner dangerous to the public.
    Read more
  • Charges against a yeoman
    Charges against a yeoman
    William Sharp, of the Essex Yeomanry, was summoned for riding a motor-cycle without a licence.
    Read more
  • Chauffeur heavily fined
    Chauffeur heavily fined
    Stanley Cains, chauffeur, Puckeridge, was summoned for driving a motor-car without a licence.
    Read more
  • Collision at Northgate End
    Collision at Northgate End
    On 27th May 1915, a collision occurred at Northgate End between a motor-cycle and a motor-cycle with a sidecar .
    Read more
  • Colonel breaks Defence of the Realm Act
    Colonel breaks Defence of the Realm Act
    Colonel Sir Theodore Brinckman, was summoned for aiding Alfred William Selby in using powerful motor lights
    Read more
  • Cycling accident
    Cycling accident
    Cyclist falls of his bicycle while going downhill and trying to avoid two soldiers.
    Read more
  • Cycling on a footpath
    Cycling on a footpath
    George Stamp, of Burford Street, Hoddesdon, was summoned for riding a bicycle on the public footpath
    Read more
  • Cycling without lights
    Cycling without lights
    Unlit cyclists fined
    Read more
  • Cyclist towed by motor-lorry
    Cyclist towed by motor-lorry
    Cyclist towed by lorry - fined.
    Read more
  • Cyclist who was towed
    Cyclist who was towed
    Dangerous cycling practice on April Fool's Day.
    Read more
  • Cyclists beware !
    Cyclists beware !
    Cyclists summoned for riding a bicycle without a light
    Read more
  • Cyclists' offences
    Cyclists' offences
    James Rowe, of Prospect Road, Cheshunt, and Ronald Brown, of Queen's Road, Waltham Cross were both summoned for riding a bicycle without a light.
    Read more
  • Dangerous driving
    Dangerous driving
    Miss Gwendolene McFarlane pleaded not guilty to a charge of speeding and thus of dangerous driving.
    Read more
  • Dangerous driving
    Dangerous driving
    Ernest Ward (30), confectioner, of Bull Plain, Hertford, was summoned for driving a cart furiously, to the danger of passengers.
    Read more
  • Did driving too fast cause the death of a soldier?
    Did driving too fast cause the death of a soldier?
    Was Gunner Adams driving his motor-cycle too fast into a bend on the road?
    Read more
  • Driving without lights
    Driving without lights
    James Watts of Great Hallingbury, was fined 12s. 6d. for driving a cart without lights.
    Read more
  • Drunk in charge
    Drunk in charge
    John Whitmarsh (53) and William George Renham (22), were charged with being drunk in charge of a pair horse van.
    Read more
  • Drunk in charge at the time of the crash
    Drunk in charge at the time of the crash
    The horse cart and the taxi collided violently, and the horse was killed. The Police Court ruled that, if the defendant was sent to the front, he would hear nothing further.
    Read more
  • Drunk in charge of a horse and cart
    Drunk in charge of a horse and cart
    'I was not drunk, I am sorry to say.'
    Read more
PAGE:< Previous1234567Next >
Crimes and Incidents
  • A SUMMARY OF OFFENCES FROM THE GAOL AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION CALENDAR FOR THE BOROUGH Michaelmas 1819 to Epiphany 1823
  • Bad words outside a cafe
  • Fined - Peddling without certificates
  • James Blackman Snook - Highwayman
  • Police : ' We will charge man'
  • Police hunt for Hatfield girl's attacker
  • What a sauce ! - alleged theft of bottles from goods yard
  • Animals
  • Crime Prevention
  • Drunkenness
  • Murder and Manslaughter
  • Non crime incidents
  • Offences Against Property
  • Offenders
  • Policing before the Police Force
  • Policing in WW1
  • Public order offences
  • Suicide and Cases Reported to H.M. Coroner
  • Traffic Offences
  • Violent crime
  • Welfare
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Accessibility
Designed and built by Community Sites

Copyright Hertfordshire County Council.
All rights reserved.

Hertfordshire Constabulary (opens in new window) The Stortford Museum (opens in new window) Heritage Lottery Fund (opens in new window) Hertfordshire County Council (opens in new window)