People in cars caught not wearing a seatbelt could be given penalty points. The Government revealed it could make the change due to the proportion of car occupants killed in crashes who were not belted up reached the highest level on record.
Some 30% of people killed in cars on Britain's roads last year were unrestrained, according to recent data published by the Department for Transport. In a written answer published last week to a parliamentary question, then-transport minister Katherine Fletcher described the figure as "unacceptably high".
She continued: "We have been considering options to tackle this including the potential merits of introducing penalty points. This might form part of the Department for Transport's planned call for evidence on motoring offences."
