Supercar seized in crackdown
A £250,000 supercar was seized for anti-social driving in Parliament Square as part of a day of action by Westminster City Council and the Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary unit to crack down on activities like unlicensed or uninsured vehicles, street hawkers and cyclists jumping red lights.
“The quarter of a million-pound supercar – a Mosler Trenne model with 190mph top speed was spotted revving its engine while being filmed by a member of the public,” according to Westminster council. “The driver could not provide a foreign driving licence at the roadside, so the vehicle was seized.”
Another vehicle confiscated by the police was a customised e-scooter, which the driver claimed cost him £15,000 to make- with custom paint job and skull decorations – which was being ridden without insurance and illegally on a public road.
The scooter and supercar were part of 47 vehicles seized for having no insurance. They came to light as the joint Operation, stopped more than 500 vehicles, including e-scooters and bikes. Officers also made 11 arrests for various offences and issued 17 fixed penalty notices to cyclists going through red traffic lights.
The combined team of council and police officers spent 24 hours in the West End tackling offences ranging from anti-social behaviour to illegal peddling of goods and as well as providing high visibly reassurance and community safety advice in relation to phone thefts.
The operation issued written warnings to unlicensed buskers in Wardour Street and Leicester Square and stopped a pedicab for playing amplified music at Cambridge Circus. Details of a further four pedicab riders were taken at Hyde Park Lane and Park Lane for playing music excessively loud.
While officers targeted unlicensed and illegal activity, Officers also found they were able to help one school trip to London – with police looking after four missing children who had been split up from their guide on a visit. Police contacted the school and the children remained with officers at New Scotland Yard until their guide arrived to collect them.
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