Mansfield South Neighbourhood Team have been conducting a Fatal Four operation in numerous areas throughout Mansfield, targeting road users committing speeding offences.

The ‘fatal four’ driving offences/contributory factors which Nottinghamshire officers are focused on preventing and reducing all year round are: 

Speeding

Drink or drug driving

Using a mobile phone while driving

Not wearing a seatbelt. 

Of those people killed on Nottinghamshire’s roads over the last three years, due to the ‘fatal four’ offences, 44 percent of these collisions (21 deaths) were due to speeding. Excessive speed accounted for half of the county’s number of fatal and serious injury collisions between 2021 and 2023.

Drink or drug driving led to 18 deaths, with families’ lives being torn apart, over this period.

Six people killed were not wearing a seatbelt and two people lost their lives as a result of a driver using a mobile device while behind the wheel.

Enforcing the law around these ‘fatal four’ offences, as well as other traffic-related offences, takes place across the Nottinghamshire Police force area 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.