A woman has been fined more than £1,000 after she was caught by police driving around with children sitting in the passenger footwell of a two-seater van.

After stopping a Nissan NV200 on the A483 in Arddleen, near Welshpool, Dyfed-Powys Police officers found two children in the footwell with no child seat or safety restraint.

A court heard that the van was driven by 26-year-old Megan Bowen, who didn’t have insurance to drive the vehicle, and was travelling with a man in the passenger seat on November 1 last year.

Llanelli Magistrates’ Court found that the number of passengers carried by the van and the way the passengers were carried in it was “likely to cause danger” of injury.

The court endorsed six points on Bowen’s driving licence and ordered her to pay a £660 fine for getting behind the wheel of the van without insurance.

Bowen, of Bryn-y-Ddol, Welshpool, was also fined £440 for driving the two-seater van with four people inside, £264 to fund victim services, and £90 court costs, making it a total of £1,454.