Belt up and shut up
Published Date:
09 September 2008
A POLICE crackdown over the past week has targeted motorists who flout the law by either driving without a seat belt and/or while using their mobile phone.
Remarkably in Nottinghamshire, the seat belt law - which most people seem to have accepted over the past 30 years - netted 400 drivers who had failed to belt up.
While a further 100 were caught using their mobile phone while driving.
The figures seem to be in contrast to what most people would have expected - and, indeed, see with their own eyes day in, day out.
For the recently introduced mobile phone law has not been accepted by motorists as readily as the now old seat belt legislation.
Whatever the figures, it is hard to support the cynics who moan about the crackdown and say that the police have better things to do with their time.
Seatbelts save lives - that is a simple fact.
And using a mobile phone can only distract drivers from what is happening on the roads in front of them.
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Last Updated:
09 September 2008 1:58 PM
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Location:
Mansfield
