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Gardaí seize dangerously loaded vehicles as part of Operation Waste

The gardaí described the offence as an “unsafe load”.

GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED two vehicles as part of a crackdown on uninsured, untested and dangerously loaded vehicles on Irish roads.

Operation Waste Twitter / @GardaTraffic Twitter / @GardaTraffic / @GardaTraffic

The first seizure was this ‘flatbed’ van with a car strapped down to the back. The driver had no license, insurance or certificate of roadworthiness.

The second was a van which was transporting another van.

Operation Waste 2 Twitter / @GardaTraffic Twitter / @GardaTraffic / @GardaTraffic

“Removal van with the wrong idea!” the Garda Twitter said. This driver had no insurance, no driver’s licence and no certificate of roadworthiness.

The gardaí said that it was an ‘unsafe load’ and that a court date would follow.

The garda crackdown on uninsured, untested and dangerously loaded vehicles is called Operation Waste, and began in September 2014.

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