Car stopped in Wellingborough for a string of road safety violations

No MOT, one passenger not wearing a seat belt and a two-year-old without a child seat

By Megan Hillery

Published 12th Oct 2020, 17:28 BST

Updated 12th Oct 2020, 17:34 BST

The Vauxhall Corsa was stopped in Kingsway, Wellingborough.

Police stopped a Vauxhall Corsa in Kingsway, Wellingborough today (October 12) after noticing that the front seat passenger was not wearing a seatbelt and the vehicle pinged as not having a valid MOT.

The driver was reported for dangerous passenger load and having no MOT.

The front seat passenger was issued with a ticket for not wearing a seat belt.

There was a two-year-old in the back of the car without a child seat. The mother, who was sat in the back of the car with the child, claimed that it was fine because, “the child could see out of the side window.”

PC Dave Lee, from the safer roads team, on Twitter, pointed out that this is - in fact - not fine.