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If your car or other vehicle has seat belts you must use them, with only a few exceptions
You must wear a seat belt if one is fitted in the seat you’re using -…
You do not need to wear a seat belt if you’re: a driver who is reversing,…
If your vehicle does not have seat belts, for example it’s a classic car,…
Seat belt installation rules and inspection for vehicles fitted with more than 8 passenger seats and first used before 1 October 2001.
Seat belt fitment requirements and tables.
Seat belts and restraint systems, airbags, anti-theft devices, horn, speedometer, speed limiter and electronic stability control (ESC) rules and inspection for car and passenger vehicle MOT tests.
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Using seat belts in cars and dual purpose vehicles: advice and guidance on legal standards.
Using seat belts in goods vehicles: advice and guidance on legal standards.
Driver mobile phone use and seatbelt wearing rates for 2021 (updating previous figures covering 2017).
Driver mobile phone use and seatbelt wearing rates for 2023.
Using seat belts in minibuses, coaches and other buses: advice and guidance on legal standards.
Guidance for medical practitioners when issuing medical exemptions to drivers and passengers from wearing seatbelts.
The legislative requirements for seat belts on urban buses, including information about new buses and standing passengers.
This publication presents estimates of seatbelt wearing rates and mobile phone use by drivers in England. Estimates of seatbelt wearing rates for Scotland are also included. Surveys were carried out in October and November 2009.
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