POLICE are warning residents after reports of dangerous driving in a car park in the Malvern Hills.

On Twitter, Malvern Cops posted pictures showing tyre marks in the grass verge at the Earnslaw Quarry car park with a warning that those responsible could have their car seized.

The tweet said: “Reports of reckless driving in a @MalvHillsTrust car park, where the drivers are risking injury to themselves and others, and of having their car seized.”

The Malvern Hills Trust which owns the car park was unavailable for comment yesterday.

The car park mentioned in the Tweet is the Earnslaw Quarry car park in Wyche Road, where corrugated sheets containing hazardous asbestos were discovered by a volunteer warden having been dumped in May this year.

At the time, the waste was removed after the Malvern Hills Trust was forced to shell out £1,000 for its removal.

A spokesman for the trust said of the asbestos: “We’re disappointed because the money we have to manage the land, a portion of that is now going to be spent on the removal of the hazardous material.”

Car parks in the Malvern Hills are owned by the Malvern Hills Trust, which uses the money raised from parking charges to pay for nature conservation and management of the Hills to protect the area for people and wildlife.

According to the Police Reform Act 2002, reckless driving of this type is any driving which is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public.

Under this law, officers have the right to seize a car or use “reasonable force” to remove a driver from it.

If convicted under this act, the driver responsible would face being fined up to £1,000.

The Malvern Hills Trust was unavailable for comment at this time.