Fines of up to £500 can be issued for failing to wear a seatbelt when one is available. The government has considered toughening seatbelt rules to ensure drivers not wearing them could receive penalty points.
The government has considered toughening seatbelt rules to ensure drivers not wearing them could receive penalty points.Recent Department for Transport figures suggested around 30% of people killed in cars on Britain's roads in 2021 were unrestrained.
Labour said Mr Sunak's video was adding to"endless painful viewing" after he previously appeared to struggle to make a contactless payment with his card. "Rishi Sunak doesn't know how to manage a seatbelt, his debit card, a train service, the economy, this country," a spokeswoman said.Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said:"It seems like the PM is getting too used to flying around in private jets that he's forgotten to wear a seatbelt in a car.While the AA warned of the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt."In 2020, a fifth of all car occupant fatalities were not wearing a seatbelt.
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