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104 East Lancashire drivers caught without a seatbelt in one day

Sixty caught in East Lancashire seatbelt check

11:49am Thursday 4th March 2010

POLICE in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale caught 107 motorists driving without a seatbelt – in just one day.

East Lancashire crackdown on speeders

MAJOR OPERATION: Police will be issuing on-the-spot fines to offenders

9:00am Thursday 18th February 2010

A MAJOR crackdown on speeding motorists and seatbelt flouters will take place in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale next week.

Burnley firm joins drive for road safety

SAFETY: Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety’s Gary Dugdale with the DVD

1:13pm Friday 9th October 2009

A CAMPAIGN to ensure East Lancashire’s children are kept safe in cars has been taken to one of Burnley’s biggest employers.

Seatbelt message expanded in Lancashire Telegraph-backed campaign

LEarning: Steve Johnson joins Kirsty Hargreaves, Joe Ditchfield and pupils at St Wilfrid’s High School

2:10pm Thursday 8th October 2009

THE seatbelt safety message is now being rolled out to year nine students as part of the Lancashire Telegraph’s Love Your Kids? Belt Them In campaign.

Sixty caught in East Lancashire seatbelt check

Sixty caught in East Lancashire seatbelt check

11:03am Tuesday 15th September 2009

SIXTY people were given fixed penalty notices for failing to wear seatbelts as police staged a crackdown as part of the Love Your Kids? Belt them In! campaign.

Shock at new East Lancashire child seatbelt poll result

GOOD ADVICE: PCSO Seppo Murphy talks with mothers and children at the seatbelt awareness day held at the Wensley Fold Children’s Centre, Blackburn

8:10pm Thursday 10th September 2009

AN AWARENESS day about the importance of wearing seatbelts was staged as part of the Lancashire Telegraph’s ‘Love Your Kids? Belt Them In!’ campaign.

‘Don’t be another casualty of not wearing a seatbelt'

INJURIES: Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharyya and his team know all about the consequences of not belting up

12:53pm Tuesday 25th August 2009

AS one of East Lancashire’s top casualty doctors Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharyya knows the importance of seatbelts — for he sees the horrific consequences of not wearing them.

Sir Jimmy Savile backs Lancashire Telegraph seatbelt campaign

Sir Jimmy Savile backs Lancashire Telegraph seatbelt campaign

9:00pm Tuesday 18th August 2009

NOW then, now then, how’s about that - Sir Jimmy Savile has given his backing to our Love Your Kids? Belt Them In! campaign.

New song to create a buzz about belting up!

SOUNDS GREAT: PCSO Mark Dixon, with Daniel Day, Kerry Hardman and Buzzy Bee at the launch of an earlier road safety campaign

1:40pm Tuesday 18th August 2009

A POLICE Community Support Officer who spearheaded a national child friendly road safety campaign has vowed to pen a new song for the Lancashire Telegraph seatbelt campaign.

Roadshow demonstrates you’re dim not to be belted in

SAFETY: Pupils of St Cuthbert’s Primary School, Darwen watching a model simulation of a car crash

1:11pm Monday 17th August 2009

A NEW strategy will be rolled out in primary schools to demonstrate the effects of not wearing seatbelts on the back of the Love Your Kids? Belt Them In! campaign.

Initiative launched to show children the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt

4:30pm Saturday 15th August 2009

A NEW strategy will be rolled out in primary schools to demonstrate the effects of not wearing seatbelts on the back of the Love Your Kids? Belt Them In! campaign.

Seatbelt law flouting is an ‘epidemic’

OFFENDERS: Police say they issue penalties over seatbelts on a daily basis

9:50pm Friday 14th August 2009

THE number of people not wearing seatbelts has reached ‘epidemic proportions’, according to a police sergeant.

VIDEO: Smashed car gives ‘belt up’ message

SERIOUS MESSAGE: Jake and Michael Glover are shown a crashed vehicle at the roadshow by fire station manager Ian Potter and PC Mark Royle Evatt

9:40am Friday 14th August 2009

THE wreckage of a crashed car was the main attraction at the first roadshow for the Love Your Kids? Belt Them In! campaign.

8 out of 10 teens in East Lancashire 'not belted in'

SAFETY:  FIRST: Blackburn with Darwen Casualty Reduction Team manager Claire Waterhouse,who is supporting the Lancashire Telegraph ‘Belt Them In!’ campaign, fastens her son, Michael, five, into his child’s car seat

9:31am Thursday 13th August 2009

FRESH survey results today reveal the true extent of the shockingly complacent attitudes towards seatbelts in East Lancashire.

Lancashire Telegraph launches seatbelt campaign after shock survey

Lancashire Telegraph launches seatbelt campaign after shock survey

2:59pm Wednesday 12th August 2009

THE Lancashire Telegraph today joins forces with road safety groups to launch a campaign urging parents to ensure their children wear seatbelts.

Seatbelts - the facts

Seatbelts - the facts

3:06pm Wednesday 12th August 2009

In a crash a person not belted in is twice as likely to die than someone who is wearing one.

I am proof that seatbelts do save lives!

CRASH SURVIVOR: Jacqueline McGrew

3:05pm Wednesday 12th August 2009

COMMUNITY champion Jacqueline McGrew is living proof of the importance of seatbelts.



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