{"id":1032,"date":"2013-09-13T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2013-09-13T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:44:15","slug":"seatbelt-crackdown-uncovers-378-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/seatbelt-crackdown-uncovers-378-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Seatbelt Crackdown Uncovers 378 Offences."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police across Scotland uncovered over 350 motoring offences during a 24 hour day of action to check drivers and passengers were wearing their seatbelts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given the potential injuries (or worse) that can be sustained should someone be involved in a collision whilst unsecured in the vehicle, these figures are both disappointing and worrying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have mentioned previously that I feel the current fixed penalty notice fine of just \u00a3100 is simply not enough to genuinely hit the offender in the pocket should they be caught. \u00a0For me, such a relatively small sum will deter very few.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please follow the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC News Article Link.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-tayside-central-24080765\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-tayside-central-24080765<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay safe folks!<br \/>\nChris<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Official Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a title=\"Facebook Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/626533830720652\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/626533830720652<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Official Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police across Scotland uncovered over 350 motoring offences during a 24 hour day of action to check drivers and passengers were wearing their seatbelts. Given the potential injuries (or worse) that can be sustained should someone be involved in a collision whilst unsecured in the vehicle, these figures are both disappointing and worrying&#8230; I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,12,39,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,40,20,42,43,21,22,41,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}