Seatbelt fine

[TheProfessor]

I am a multi-drop delivery driver and i was stoped last night for not wearing my seatbelt by a normal PC, not a traffic cop! �30 fine. 1. I thought it had to be a traffic cop that stopped you???? 2. Any other ways around it??

[chijiki]

Fixed penalty notices are issued by police officers, traffic wardens and special constables.
You can pay the fixed penalty or request a court hearing, using the procedures set out on the reverse of the notice. If you request a hearing you may also include a letter of mitigation, which will be taken into consideration.

[boff in]

Just pay up.

Also suggest that you change your user name to a more appropriate one, because you ain't no professor

[andy-hughes]

I can quite understand the tediousness of putting on and taking off a seatbelt frequently, but think about it, gravity doesn't think it inconvenient at all to throw you through your own windscreen and into the road, and it doesn't let you off either!

[kempie]

OT but shouldn't that be momentum, rather than gravity, which propels you through the windscreen?

[Ward-Minter]

say you are a muslim and the police will probably give you 30 quid.

[spaced]

hahahahaha!

on a serious note, just pay the fine. At the end of the day a seat belt is there to preserve life in an accident and you should wear it. end of.

[bob57]

there has been a change to the seatbelt law concerning hgv I'm not sure if it applies to multi-drop drivers as well but you are allowed to drive upto a certain length of road without a seatbelt something like the length of a football pitch if that is the case then you have no case to answer

if the policeman followed you for a longer distance then you have committed an offence might be better to see a solicitor

but one question you should ask yourself is................. is it worth the hassle especially if no points go onto your licence

[kempie]

From 1 March 2005 the law changed so that it became compulsory for drivers and passengers in vehicles constructed or adapted to carry goods to belt up when making deliveries or collections if they travel over 50m.

Goods vehicle users were originally exempt from wearing a seatbelt when making local rounds of deliveries or collections. However, some van and goods vehicle users wrongly considered themselves exempt whatever distance they were travelling. The law was amended to make it clear that the exemption applies only over a short distance.

[Gef]

And why would anyone want to drive even 50m without a seatbelt given the idiots that are on the road today.

[bob57]

gef there is the rural postman who from house to house and also commercial drivers who do require the need to drive that short distance I myself do it in my hgv when I am looking for a particular place in a strange town