HAVOC AFTER DUMPER KEYS LEFT IN VEHICLE

Construction dumper joyride highlights security requirements 

A teenager has been given a 12-month community order with 40 hours of unpaid work after he took a site dumper on hazardous joyride.

He used the vehicle to smash his way out of an 8ft high metal fence around a construction site in Lincoln. Full report.

In mitigation, his legal representative said:

“Mr Keeley accepts he was well and truly egged on by other two and was initially reluctant but was called a chicken. The keys to the dumper truck were, believe it or not, located under the driver’s seat”