Police condemn driver for letting toddler lay on passenger’s lap | UK | News | EUROtoday
Police officers have slammed an ‘unacceptable’ driver who did not put on a seatbelt and let a one-year-old youngster lay on the passenger’s lap.
Cops say they have been ready at a crimson mild in Blackburn, Lancs,. when a automobile, whose driver and passenger wasn’t carrying seatbelts, pulled up subsequent to them.
They then noticed a one-year-old woman was mendacity throughout the again seat passenger’s lap and wasn’t in her automobile seat – ‘all as a result of she cried.’
A Lancashire Road Police spokesperson stated the drivers actions have been ‘unacceptable’ and stated the pair have been summoned to court docket.
They stated: “Traffic officer in a fully marked car sat at a red light in Blackburn, shocked to see a car pull up alongside him.”
“Empty car seat, driver no seatbelt, rear seat passenger no seatbelt with a one-year- old child across her lap asleep all because she cried.
“Unacceptable. Summoned to court docket.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1893953/police-unacceptable-driver-toddler-car-seat