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• The Wiltshire traffic police campaign to pull over CV
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drivers for not wearing seat-bolts reveals that the current situation is far from good.
In one day, 64 vehicles were stopped. Of these, 26 drivers were dealt with for not wearing seat-belts. Discounting the vehicles where belts were not fitted
or those drivers police were unable to prove were not belting up left 10 people flouting the law.
A police spokesman says: 'Obviously it is extremely disappointing with the number not wearing seat-belts, though we are not surprised."
The force also looked at other offences drivers had committed, such as drivers' hours, fals records and overweight vehicles. But it was th number of drivers not wearing seat-belts that wa by far the worst problem.
The Fleet Safety Forum, part of read safet campaign group Brake, supports the police schen It hopes it will act as a wake-up call to opera tors to stress the importance of wearing seat-belt and include it in company policy an driver handbooks.
Brake chief executive Mary Williams, say "It is shocking that so many truck drivers fail t wear their seat-belts. It seems that some true drivers feel that they are safe in their rebid due to its sheer size and weight. A horrific nun her of people are killed each year on our road and wearing a seat-belt at all times could hel to slash these numbers."
Although Wiltshire traffic police carry oo similar crackdowns on a regular basis, It spokesman concedes this particular aspect ha not improved. He agrees that changing truc drivers' perception could take a long time.