Moment a brazen fly-tipper unloads a mountain of rubbish on a residential street in broad daylight
- The van driver dumped several tonnes of rubbish on a road in Birmingham
- Outraged witnesses reported the incident to the police and local council
- The council removed the waste a short time later after receiving the reports
- A spokesperson said they will seek to identify and prosecute the truck driver
This is the shocking moment a van driver fly-tipped a mountain of debris on a residential street in broad daylight.
A woman’s voice can be heard yelling: ‘Oi!’ as the driver lifts the back of the truck, sending waste across the pavement in Yardley Wood, Birmingham.
The trucker fled the scene after dumping his load on the street Sunday.
Witnesses reported the matter to the council and on the police non-emergency 101 line in an effort to catch the trucker.
The fly tipper drove up onto the pavement in Yardley Wood, Birmingham to dump his waste
Witnesses said the driver was not concerned about people who were watching him dump his load illegally on the pavement
The council removed the waste shortly afterwards.
According to one witness whose house overlooks the area:
She said: ‘It was just unbelievable how brazen they were. On Sundays, you have elderly people and families walking along the street and it was such a dangerous hazard.
‘You can’t believe the cheek of them – to do it in broad daylight as if they don’t have a care in the world.
‘I started filming as I could see the truck had its back down and I thought ‘surely they are not going to dump all that there’.
‘But they did. I couldn’t believe it. My husband tried driving after them to get the registration plate but they got away so we reported it to the council and called 101.
‘To be fair to the council, they came out that same day to clear it up, but they had to really as it was such a health hazard.
‘In the week school children would be walking to school and you’d have them going in the road to avoid it as well as mums with pushchairs.
‘It made me furious as it’s right opposite my home. It is not nice to see or look at and someone could have been seriously hurt.
Birmingham City Council arrived at the scene a short time later and removed the rubbish
‘Kids will be kids and might clamber over it or someone on a bike could come round the corner and not see it until the last minute.
‘There were wooden pallets, metal pipes, piles of bricks as well as a cat carrier bizarrely. It looked like general waste, there was tonnes of it.
‘There were two blokes in the vehicle. It appears they do rubbish removal as there was an incident nearby involving the same van where they dumped bathroom materials.
‘Unbelievably, they came back later on in the day and we were able to get the registration plate.
‘I’m not sure if they had a guilty conscience or what but by the time they came the waste had been removed and we were able to get their details.
‘I’ve passed on all the information to the council and police, but we’re yet to hear if they have done anything about it yet.
‘These people need catching because it’s a filthy thing to be going around and doing – especially in built up suburbs where lots of people live.’
The waste included off cuts of timber, old wooden pallets and some scrap metal.
Residents complained the dumped waste was a danger to children and vulnerable pedestrians
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said: ‘Fly-tipping is a criminal offence. It is a crime that damages the environment that we all have to live and work in.
‘Where we have credible evidence, we will investigate and prosecute.
‘We receive hundreds of reports of fly-tipping across the city every week and do everything we can to remove as much waste as possible and investigate the circumstances behind rubbish that is dumped.
‘The council can only prosecute when credible evidence, that meets the criminal burden of proof, is available.’
The incident happened on Ravenshill Road, in the Yardley Wood area of Birmingham.