Officers have launched an operation to crack down on off-road bikers and antisocial behaviour in Calverton.
The Gedling Central Beat Team conducted the off-road motorbike operation following complaints from local residents about off-road bikes being ridden in a dangerous manner.
Officers said eight riders who were riding around the Calverton Colliery site in an Anti-Social Manner were stopped and issued with Section 59 Notices.
The legislation surrounding off-road bikes is that they can be used on private land, with the landowner’s permission. The Road Traffic Act 1988 includes provisions that make it illegal to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle on land where permission has not been given.
The Road Traffic Act 1988 (section 34) states that it is illegal to drive or ride a mechanically propelled vehicle without lawful authority on common land, moorland or land not forming part of a road, or on any road which is a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway.
Unsurfaced unclassified roads (often know as green roads or green lanes) and byways open to all traffic (BOATs) are roads, so riders would need to have a driving licence and insurance, and the quad bike must be taxed and registered (as per the Road Traffic Act).
To ride on public land like parks, riders would need the local authority’s permission.
A police spokesman said: “We will be conducting more Operations of this nature in the future.”
