Seatbelt legality question

Unlight · 27 Feb 2009 at 13:31

Is it £60 and three points for no drivers seatbelt on mainland UK?

uber soldat · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:16

Burnsy2023 said:
Not necesarily, more accurately, it would be private land that is not subject to the RTA.

The RTA only applies to the public highway?

Burnsy2023 · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:20

uber soldat said:
The RTA only applies to the public highway?

No. Supermarket car parks and any road that has public access is subject to the RTA.

uber soldat · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:25

Burnsy2023 said:
No. Supermarket car parks and any road that has public access is subject to the RTA.

Ah i see what you mean now

csmager · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:27

Unlight said:
Is it £60 and three points for no drivers seatbelt on mainland UK?

£30, no points. Non endorsable offence.

Unlight · 27 Feb 2009 at 15:56

csmager said:
£30, no points. Non endorsable offence.

I see, I N.Ireland it is 3 points and £60

russ0r · 27 Feb 2009 at 22:03

deko said:
why would you not wear one anyway? even if your going 100 yards, stick the seatbelt on, takes literally 2 seconds. Fair enough its been drummed into me to put a seatbelt on as soon as i get into any car, but it still just makes sense.

When I'm delivering out of the van at work I usually don't bother. I travel for max 20s between the houses and have to get in/out to open/close people's gates. It is a proper pain in the arse. 4 seconds for every stop soon adds up when you're doing it 100-150 times.
Funnily enough I'd probably get the sack if I was caught by my boss; but no fine from the plod.
Always wear it when I'm travelling longer than 150m or so though. Always wear it in the car too. Just it seems a waste of time when I'm travelling for such a short time at a low speed.

cheets64 · 6 Mar 2009 at 17:09

Why are private hire drivers allowed to not wear one, imagine a heffer rolling the car and him flying around inside the car you and getting squashed.

stoofa · 6 Mar 2009 at 17:55

cheets64 said:
Why are private hire drivers allowed to not wear one, imagine a heffer rolling the car and him flying around inside the car you and getting squashed.

This amazed me too.
Even a week or so after this thread was created I still cannot understand any logic behind the private hire driver not having to wear a seatbelt when he has customers in the vehicle.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious?

Coxyis · 6 Mar 2009 at 21:04

R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
a lot of HGV drivers think its cool to not wear a seatbelt, little do they realize that in the event of a roll-over, the belt stops the driver getting thrown out of the cab!

Silly truckers.

I know a lot of the 'older' lorries on the road don't even have them fitted...