Delivery Drivers - Belt Up!

From Tuesday 1 March it became compulsory for drivers and passengers in goods vehicles to belt up when making deliveries or collections (if they travel over 50m - roughly the width of an average football pitch).

The Department for Transport estimates that if seatbelt wearing in vans is brought up to the level seen in cars, then this change could prevent some 20 deaths, 240 serious casualties and 1000 slight injuries annually. Previously goods vehicle users were exempt from wearing a seatbelt when making local rounds of deliveries or collections.

The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts)(Amendment) Regulations 2005 (SI 2005 No. 27) are available on the HMSO website at www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/ si/si2005/20050027.htm. The Department for Transport press release can be found at: www.dft.gov.uk/pns/ displaypn.cgi?pn_id=2005_0021.

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