Video vigilante lands driver with £1,800 fine

A PENSIONER who drove “too close” to a cyclist has been handed his first motoring fine in 40 years after a video vigilante told police.

Wayne Humphreys, 77, was recorded on a country road in Wales last year.

Footage showing his car passing close to a cyclist was sent to Gosafe, Wales’s roads policing team.

Mr Humphreys, a warehouse boss, was contacted over the manoeuvre but did not attend a course or pay a fixed penalty notice.

At Cardiff magistrates court, he was prosecuted for driving without due care and attention, handed four penalty points and told to pay £1,887 in a fine and costs.

Mr Humphreys said that “the last fine I had was 35 to 40 years ago for doing 34 miles per hour in a 30 zone”.

A Gosafe spokesman said Mr Humphreys was offered a course but “failed to accept” it, and “later failed to comply with a fixed penalty notice”.