Dispersal order after ‘highly dangerous’ car racing

Police said racing and drifting was "highly dangerous"

A police order has been issued preventing gatherings on an A-road bypass after reports of "highly dangerous" driving and racing.

Suffolk Police officers were called to the A134 Fornham bypass near Bury St Edmunds on Saturday.

Police attended to tackle “anti-social behaviour relating to motor vehicles” and said the vehicles eventually left the scene.

To prevent it from happening again, a dispersal order is in force from 19:00 BST on Friday until 18:59 on Sunday.

This gives officers the power to exclude a person from an area for a period of up to 48 hours.

The dispersal order is in force from Friday evening until Sunday evening but will not affect "legitimate business"

Insp Andy Beeby said: "The activity of racing and drifting on a highway is highly dangerous and causes significant harassment, alarm and distress to other road users and residents."

He said the dispersal order would not prevent "legitimate use of the roads or businesses in the area", but would be used to "disperse any gatherings" from the area.

"It’s also important to say police will seize vehicles used in such circumstances on the highway under s.59 of the Police Reform Act 2002," he added.