German looking licence plates and seatbelts.

ripoffthemonkey

ripoffthemonkey

ripoffthemonkey

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Happy Saturday all.

I was just shopping at Tesco (buying some of that choco brownie milk I saw in the random immage thread) came out to the car to find a police car boxing me in questioning a gentleman in a VW Transporter next to me.

Apparently he had been pulled over because his passenger was not wearing a seatbelt and that is a £1000 fine. Does anyone here check to see if their passengers wear their seatbelts? I myself am really bad at wearing a seatbelt at the best of times but will be wearing it all the time from now on, I cant afford £1000! :eek:

The other reason he was pulled over was his German looking English licence plate. I dont know about the rest of the UK, but down here in Cornwall every other VW, paticually the Transporters all sport german looking English licence plates, The look kind of cool, but they are apparently highly illegal. Aprantly a blind eye was being turned, but now there are so many that the 5-0 are cracking down, and hard. what was a simple beer run to Tesco has cost the poor dude £2000!

He was breaking the law on both counts, but I cant help feel a little sorry for him....

Choco brownie milk was epic BTW :)
 
The driver is responsible for ensuring children under the age of 14 are wearing seatbelts. It's unlikely he would get fined £1000, it is probably just the maximum.

I doubt he would have been fined £1000 for having a german number plate either..
 
ripoffthemonkey said:
I dont know about the rest of the UK, but down here in Cornwall every other VW, paticually the Transporters all sport german looking English licence plates, The look kind of cool, but they are apparently highly illegal.
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Seriously....they don't, they look really, really stupid.
You also say "apparently illegal" as if you had no idea why they might be?
 
Moothead2 said:
How about just wear the contraption desgined to stop you being flung out the front window during a crash :confused:?
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A friends brother was in a crash recently, and he was told in no uncertain terms that if he had been wearing his seatbelt he'd be dead now.

Of course, there are probably more situations where your seatbelts help than they hinder, but it's now always so cut and dry.
 
TBH as others have said, only an idiot wouldn't wear the thing. As it happens my car makes quite a fuss if people dont have their belts on though so I dont bother checking myself.

Hawker
 
ripoffthemonkey said:
I myself am really bad at wearing a seatbelt at the best of times but will be wearing it all the time from now on, I cant afford £1000! :eek:
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I'm glad you've seen the light, but I can't understand why you would choose not to.:confused:

Imagine you crashed head on into a car, came flying through your windscreen, over the first car and your limp body ended up killing 3 school children or worse still denting my bonnet or smashing through my windscreen.
 
[TW]Fox;19759218 said:
I don't believe he was told that at All
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my father was when he had his crash. He was t-boned on the drivers side and him, the steering wheel and the pedals all ended up in the passenger foot well. Shattered his right leg in several places but luckily nothing more severe than that. He was also told that not wearing a seatbelt saved his life and when i saw the state of that car he was driving, I believed that.
 
What you mean by german plates, pressed or just the badge?

If its pressed your having problems with/ the guy got done with, DMB do a legal vinyl alternative, and i think you can get legal metal looking ones from dubmeister still.

I have a vinyl pressed style plate on mine (not euro style just plain) and for vinyl it don't look too bad...

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