{"id":138033,"date":"2021-09-07T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=138033"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:53:10","slug":"motorist-caught-driving-4x4-along-railway-line-is-jailed-for-15-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/motorist-caught-driving-4x4-along-railway-line-is-jailed-for-15-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist caught driving 4&#215;4 along railway line is jailed for 15 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Motorist caught driving 4&#215;4 vehicle along RAILWAY line in stunt that caused eight-hour delay for passengers and \u00a323,000 damage is jailed for 15 months<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aaron O&#8217;Halloran, 31,\u00a0drove his Mitsubishi 4&#215;4 through a railway security gate\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>CCTV captures moment he passed through\u00a0Duddeston station along tracks\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Incident caused \u00a323,000 of damage and passenger delays of up to eight hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>O&#8217;Halloran denied endangering people on the railway, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and using a vehicle without insurance\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But he was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court and was jailed for 15 months<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A idiotic motorist has been jailed after driving his car\u00a0along a railway track through a train station &#8211; causing huge delays and thousands in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking footage shows\u00a0Aaron O&#8217;Halloran, 31, taking his 4&#215;4 down the line past Duddeston station in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>A court heard he drove his vehicle through a gate at around 7.30am on May 9 before he proceeded half a mile along the live track towards Aston.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Halloran then abandoned the Mitsubishi Shogun across the line and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/07\/16\/47614923-9966453-image-m-50_1631030023347.jpg\" height=\"385\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Aaron O&#8217;Halloran, 31, was jailed for 15 months at Birmingham Crown Court for the incident<\/p>\n<p>The incident caused \u00a323,000 worth of damage and passenger delays of up to eight hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers found a mobile phone inside the car and traced it back to him.<\/p>\n<p>He refused to comment during police interview, only denying it was him driving the vehicle when shown the extraordinary CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p>Security cameras captured the vehicle driving through the station next to the platform edge as it made its way along the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Halloran, of Handworth, Birmingham, denied endangering people on the railway, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and using a vehicle without insurance.<\/p>\n<p>He was found guilty following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court and was jailed for 15 months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of \u00a3156 on August 23.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/07\/16\/47614915-9966453-image-m-53_1631030068700.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Security cameras captured the vehicle driving through Duddeston station next to the platform edge as it made its way along the tracks<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Raymond Ascott, of British Transport Police, said afterwards: &#8216;This was an immensely dangerous and senseless act by O&#8217;Halloran which caused significant risk to passengers and damage to the railway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The sentence handed to him reflects the severity of this crime and we are thankful no one was injured as a result of O&#8217;Halloran&#8217;s alarming behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;ll now have plenty of time to reflect on his idiotic actions in prison.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9966453\/Motorist-caught-driving-4x4-railway-line-jailed-15-months.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorist caught driving 4&#215;4 vehicle along RAILWAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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