{"id":353609,"date":"2025-08-18T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:14:10","slug":"two-prestwich-drivers-fined-in-one-day-for-no-car-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353609\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Prestwich drivers fined in one day for no car seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cars<\/a> were stopped in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/news\/prestwich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prestwich<\/a> on Friday (August 15) by special constables out on patrol.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers<\/a> said that neither car had a car seat in the vehicle and fined both drivers as well as adding penalty points to their licences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/topics\/transport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drivers<\/a> to remember the correct car seat, and said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/topics\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child&#8217;s<\/a> safety should never be compromised.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/news\/25396012.cheshire-police-officer-tv-series-banned-improper-texts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motorway Cops: Catching Britain&#8217;s Speeders officer banned over texts<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/news\/25388762.bury-police-say-driver-caught-class-b-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Suspicious&#8217; driver caught with Class A and B drugs, police say<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said: &#8220;On Friday, our Special Constables stopped two separate vehicles where babies were being held on their mothers laps, with no car seat in the vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Both drivers have been reported and will receive a fine &amp; endorsements on their licence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A child\u2019s safety should never be compromised \u2014 always use the correct car seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both cars were stopped in Prestwich on Friday (August 15) by special constables out on patrol. Officers said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-353609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115048537292552304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}