A HONDA Civic driver from Herefordshire has been ordered to pay hundreds after he was caught out with a dodgy tyre.
Joshua Patrick Dingley-Johns was proven guilty of one count of using a passenger vehicle with tyres with insufficient tread at a single justice procedure hearing at Worcester Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.
The court heard that the 29-year-old had been caught out after getting behind the wheel of a Honda Civic in Leominster’s Bargates on September 25 last year.
His Honda was found to have a tyre with insufficient tread, magistrates in Worcester were told.
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The grooves of the tread pattern of the tyre fitted to the front near-side wheel were under 1.6 millimitres throughout a continuous band comprising the central three-quarters of the breadth of tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre.
Dingley-Johns, of Hopyard Close, Leominster, was fined £440 and received three penalty points on his driving licence for the offence.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £90 and a £176 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.
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