Dorset Police is reminding drivers and passengers to belt up this month as officers continue to tackle seat belt offences throughout June as part of a national seat belt safety campaign. <\/p>\n
Wearing a seat belt is a legal requirement and drivers or adult passengers caught not wearing a belt face a \u00a3100 fixed penalty notice or up to a \u00a3500 fine in court. <\/p>\n
All children must use the appropriate child restraint correct for their age when travelling in a vehicle until they reach 135cm tall or their 12th birthday. After this point all children must wear a seat belt. All children\u2019s car seats must be EU approved and are marked with an \u2018E\u2019 label. They must be suitable for the child\u2019s weight and size and correctly fitted according to the manufacturer\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n
Drivers can be fined up to \u00a3500 if a child aged under 14 isn\u2019t in the correct car seat or wearing a seat belt while they are driving. <\/p>\n
Inspector Craig Tatton, of the Roads Policing Team, said \u201cWe will be out over the coming weeks in local communities and on main routes tackling seat belt offences, in addition to the other high-risk road traffic offences. It is scientifically proven that if you are involved in a collision and you are not wearing a seat belt, you are more likely to suffer a serious or even fatal injury. The law exists to ensure people\u2019s safety. If you are seriously injured it effects not only you, but also your family and friends who will all have to live with the decision that you made not to use this simple safety measure. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have had to tell a grieving family that their loved one died because they weren\u2019t wearing a seat belt. It is heartbreaking and needless. Please don\u2019t let it be you.\u201d <\/p>\n
For further advice, visit gov.uk\/seat-belts-law<\/a> or dorsetroadsafe.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dorset Police is reminding drivers and passengers to belt up this month as officers continue to tackle seat belt offences throughout June as part of a national seat belt safety campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dorset","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}