0 a belt that fastens around you when you are travelling in a vehicle or aircraft and holds you in your seat, in order to reduce the risk of being injured in an accident: --
1 a strap in a vehicle or aircraft that fastens around you, holding you in your seat to reduce the risk of injury in an accident --
Seat belt wearing therefore forms a major element of this year's road safety publicity.
Expenditure on seat belt publicity in the past 12 months was £689,950.
There are about 1½ million road vehicles—other than two-wheelers—which are exempt from the seat belt requirement; these are mainly commercial vehicles.
The legislation provides that decisions on medical exemptions from compulsory seat belt wearing rest with individual doctors.
The single most effective measure for reducing accident injury is the wearing of a seat belt.
I confess to being a forgetful and lazy driver who does not use his seat belt more than half the time.
But seat belt manufacturers should realise that they could do more to make it easier to put a seat belt on.
A lot of people are deterred from wearing a seat belt because of this difficulty.
