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Thursday 22nd April 2010
22 April 2010
A stolen JCB has been tracked down by police – resulting in the closure of the QE2 bridge during rush hour.
A lorry, which was carrying the JCB, along with a stolen tractor and £350,000 worth of other plant equipment, was trying to cross the bridge when it was tracked down after a seven day search.
Unluckily for the perpetrators, the JCB was emitting a signal from a tracking device made by Tracker, leading the police with the help of a helicopter unit, to follow the lorry from Great Casterton, Leicestershire, to the bridge in Essex.
“Without a tracker unit installed in the JCB, this machinery would be well on its way to Europe”, said Sgt Colin Sheard from Essex Roads Policing Unit. “The owner of the second stolen tractor is very lucky to have his machinery back.”
Tracking technology from Tracker has recovered more than 19,000 stolen vehicles, worth £420m, since 1993.
A stolen JCB has been tracked down by police – resulting in the closure of the QE2 bridge during rush hour.
A lorry, which was carrying the JCB, along with a stolen tractor and £350,000 worth of other plant equipment, was trying to cross the bridge when it was tracked down after a seven day search.
Unluckily for the perpetrators, the JCB was emitting a signal from a tracking device made by Tracker, leading the police with the help of a helicopter unit, to follow the lorry from Great Casterton, Leicestershire, to the bridge in Essex.
“Without a tracker unit installed in the JCB, this machinery would be well on its way to Europe”, said Sgt Colin Sheard from Essex Roads Policing Unit. “The owner of the second stolen tractor is very lucky to have his machinery back.”
Tracking technology from Tracker has recovered more than 19,000 stolen vehicles, worth £420m, since 1993.