Child crying 'no excuse' for 1-year-old being out of car seat with no seat belt
A driver was summoned to court after a passenger was spotted holding a one-year-old child in her lap, despite having a safety seat.
The incident happened in Blackburn where an officer spotted a woman sitting in the back with the child. The driver himself was also not wearing a seatbelt.
Lancashire road traffic officers posted: “Traffic officer in a fully marked car sat at a red light in Blackburn, shocked to see a car pull up alongside him.
“Empty car seat, driver no seatbelt, rear seat passenger no seatbelt with a one-year-old child across her lap asleep all because she cried. Unacceptable. Summoned to court.”
Elsewhere, police said the driver of this car was fortunate not to be seriously injured when an insecure set of ladders came off a van roof rack on the M58 motorway and through the windscreen.
The van driver was reported for the insecure load.