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• by Chris Tindall A stagering number of truck drivers
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are not wearing seatbens while on the road, meaning lives are needlessly lost.
The warning comes from Wiltshire police, who say the misconception among NOV drivers is that they are not legally required to wear seat-belts.
Mo Morrison, a collision investigator for the force, estimates that as many as 80% of van and truck drivers in south and east Wiltshire are failing to belt up. He is attempting to raise public awareness of the problem by publishing photographs of collisions.
"When we speak to them they all say, 'I don't need to wear one.says Morrison. "There seems to be a big misconception that they are exempt purely because the older vehicles weren't fitted with them and so, as the new vehicles are brought Into service, they don't put their belts on." He points out that two drivers have died In the county in recent weeks because they were not wearing seat-belts.
Morrison hopes that shock tactics will help drivers of all vehicles to think twice before leaving belts undone: "What we want to achieve is to show them that if that person had been wearing a seat-heft, he would be alive."