A driver has been stopped and fined by police after he travelled by train from the south coast of England to west Wales to collect a camper van.
Officers from Dyfed-Powys Police were carrying out lockdown checks near the Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire border as they continue to clampdown on motorists who are flouting the coronavirus lockdown with non-essential travel.
On Wednesday, they stopped a motorhome as it was travelling on the A477 near Red Roses.
When officers pulled the vehicle over, the driver explained that he was on his way home - to Brighton.
According to the Pembrokeshire Roads Policing Team, the man had caught a train from Brighton in East Sussex to Tenby in Pembrokeshire on Wednesday morning to collect the motorhome.
He was then in the process of driving it back home - a distance of more than 270 miles - when he was stopped.
Officers said the driver “freely admitted that this wasn’t essential travel” and they reported him for breaching travel restrictions relating to coronavirus legislation.
Police continue to stop drivers in west Wales and check their reason for travelling is deemed to be essential, as the UK continues to live under lockdown measures first imposed more than five weeks ago.
On Tuesday, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had received information about people intending to travel to west Wales to spend time in holiday homes in the coming days. It warned anyone considering doing this that they would face a fine or even an appearance in court.
On Monday, meanwhile, a young woman was fined after driving from Gloucester to a beach in Aberystwyth, while the day before that two people were handed penalty notices after they were caught driving around the Begelly area of Pembrokeshire looking to buy a coffee.
On Saturday, a man from Pembrokeshire was stopped by police and told officers that he was a key worker, before admitting that he was not and that he was, in fact, just out for a spin.
