Seatbelts help save lives by locking into place, and keeping the driver or passenger secure in their seats, in a collision. After a car accident, however, the mechanisms that control the seat belt may no longer work, which means you may have to replace them entirely.

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The law is in place because of worries that wearing a belt would make them more vulnerable to assault. The law states you don’t need to wear a seat belt if you’re “a licensed taxi driver who is ‘plying for hire’ or carrying passengers”.

How do you check if you have been caught speeding? There’s no way to check if you’ve been caught speeding, you will have to wait and see if you receive notice from the local police force in the post, which you should receive within 14 days.

Fixed digital speed cameras detect the speed of vehicles by using approved electronic sensors that are embedded in the road surface. These sensors accurately measure the speed of the vehicle. Fixed digital speed cameras have the capacity to measure speed in both directions.

Answer: Yes, only one vehicle can be targeted at any onetime. However, laser guns are REALLY quick at taking a speed reading – a matter of seconds.

So how do speed cameras get it wrong? ‘You don’t have to be speeding by very much to be caught by cameras, and if you’re driving a 10-year-old car it may well be that your speedometer is not completely accurate,’ says Alastair Coggins, a solicitor at law firm Gardner Leader.

Average speed cameras work by recording your speed at two different points. They don’t capture your speed in a single flash. Instead, they’ll monitor your speed over a length of road. This is so people don’t slow down just before they see a camera and then speed up again afterwards.