Police have seized a quad bike belonging to a nuisance driver in Bradford East.
West Yorkshire Police's Operation Steerside team received reports of nuisance quad bikers in the fields just off Wood Lane on Tuesday.
The force blocked off exits with the help of Bradford East's neighbourhood policing team.
With nowhere to go, the rider decided to dump the quad bike and make off down the steep slope into the quarry.
Operation Steerside seized the bike and left with the result of "happy residents".
The seizure comes ahead of the second reading for a new Quad Bikes Bill proposed by Bradford South MP Judith Cummins (Labour).
Reports of nuisance off-road vehicles in @WYP_Keighley area. Steerside Officers attend & locate a male on a quadbike driving on the pavement/embankments. Driver then ditches the quad & runs off. Vehicle #SEIZED - Enquiries ongoing to trace the driver for several offences. pic.twitter.com/tULT8KHh9d
— Steerside Enforcement Team (@WYP_Steerside) February 4, 2022
Speaking earlier this year, the MP revealed a series of measures which she believes would “provide consistency, to protect road users and legitimate owners of quads and to stop the blight of their dangerous and anti-social use on our streets”.
Ms Cummins told MPs: “This Bill will promote safe use of road-legal quads and reduce the number of off-road quads on our streets by making wearing of helmets compulsory, making necessary the installation of vehicle immobilisers, making registration of all quad bikes compulsory, empowering police to remove problem off-road quads from our streets permanently.”
She added: “The constant loud, piercing drone of quad bikes is an all too familiar sound in many of our towns and cities.
“While these vehicles have important and legitimate uses in agriculture and related industries, they are tools, not toys and their careless, reckless and unsafe use on our streets is a menace and my constituents have had enough.”
Ms Cummins said “our streets are plagued by quads legal only for off-road use which do not require registration”.
Ms Cummins said data from West Yorkshire Police showed anti-social quad use was a “growing problem”, with “over 10,000 reports of anti-social use of quads and bikes in West Yorkshire in 2021, a shocking 42 per cent rise on the previous year”.
The MP raised the noise disturbance of quad bikes and damage caused to the local landscape, plus the risks to other road users, pedestrians and drivers themselves.
The Bill is listed for a second reading on May 6, 2022.
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