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4 months, 2 weeks ago

NSW government issues more than 11,400 fines to drivers caught by new seatbelt detection cameras

ABC

Thousands of people have been caught by new seatbelt detection cameras across New South Wales in just three weeks, with the government expressing "shock" at the numbers. Seatbelt issue requires 'culture change' Mr Graham said the high number of people not wearing seatbelts was contributing to the "high and rising" road toll across the country. "If you're not wearing your …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Privacy campaigners' fury as AI speed cameras which can 'spy inside' cars are set to be rolled out nationwide to catch drivers using mobile phones at the wheel or not wearing seatbelts

Daily Mail

AI speed cameras that can 'spy inside' cars are set to be rolled out across the UK to catch drivers using mobile phones or failing to wear seatbelts. This is a different model to the 'Redspeed Sentio' unit New AI powered cameras caught 117 people using their mobile phones in just three days after being deployed in a trial on …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Climate turbulence ahead: Time to fasten our seatbelts

Live Mint

For most well-off urban residents, the effects of climate change have mostly been viewed from afar as a problem confronted by villagers. Among its disturbing findings was that “cities are not cooling down at night at the rate they used to" 20 years ago, and that “all cities have registered significant increase in their built heat island effect," a reference …

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9 months ago

Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins a second term. Fasten your seatbelts

LA Times

“The place is failing,” former President Trump said of California at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last month. We’ll give you a mansion.” Under its current policies, Trump charged, the state can “take children away from their parents and sterilize them.” “He’s destroyed California,” Trump said of the governor, whom he recently gave a new and strikingly unattractive …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Tjerk Westerterp, minister for seatbelts and helmets, dies at 92

Dutch News

Former transport minister Tjerk Westerterp, who made seat belts compulsory and went on to devise the AEX stock index, has died at the age of 92. He was junior minister for European affairs between 1971 and 1973 before spending four years as minister for transport and water management in the Labour-led den Uyl cabinet until 1977. Westerterp, who lost a …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Tjerk Westerterp, minister for seatbelts and helmets, dies at 92

Dutch News

Former transport minister Tjerk Westerterp, who made seat belts compulsory and went on to devise the AEX stock index, has died at the age of 92. He was junior minister for European affairs between 1971 and 1973 before spending four years as minister for transport and water management in the Labour-led den Uyl cabinet until 1977. Westerterp, who lost a …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Australia was a world leader in road safety, but has progress stalled?

ABC

Australia was once an international pioneer in road safety. "There were get-out clauses," says Mark King, an adjunct professor at QUT's Centre for Road Safety and Accident Research. Terry Slevin, the CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia, says pubs and clubs argued random breath testing was "anti-business". But there's another danger on our roads we have yet to …

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1 year, 3 months ago

'Fasten your seatbelts': Why Trump’s Georgia trial 'could be the most chaotic' in recent memory

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case against him and eighteen of his associates for their alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election will be televised. But the Arizona Mirror's Michael Kiefer warns on Monday that as "TV pundits applaud the fact" that the entire planet …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Victorian road safety behaviours inquiry shows 'bewildering' number of motorists without seatbelt

ABC

It is one of the first things that people need to do when they get into a car, but data shows that an alarming number of motorists are ignoring one of the most fundamental car safety measures — wearing a seatbelt. Key points: Data from a three-month camera trial shows 6,597 motorists committed seatbelt offences Twenty-two people have died on …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Phil Spencer says brother tried to save parents by cutting their seatbelts with a penknife after river crash

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Their carer was in the car and managed to …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Rapido Equips 1000+ Delhi Autos with Seatbelts and Rain Curtains

News 18

Rapido, the foremost auto-tech aggregator in India, has unveiled a groundbreaking initiative set to outfit more than 1000 auto rickshaws in Delhi with essential safety features – seatbelts and rain curtains. Rapido’s auto rickshaws operating in busy South Delhi neighbourhoods, Noida’s thriving sectors, vibrant Greater Noida, and dynamic Sector 30 in Gurugram are now decked out with the most cutting-edge …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Smile, you're on camera! Police AI spy van catches nearly 500 offences including motorists on their mobile phones, not wearing seatbelts and even drug-driving in just one week

Daily Mail

It identified 86 drivers potentially on their phone and 273 without a seatbelt A police AI spy van has caught nearly 500 offences in just one week, including motorists on their mobile phones, not wearing seatbelts and even driving under the influence of drugs. Hampshire and the Thames Valley police forces targeted commercial vehicles in a week-long operation on the …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Fasten your seatbelts for an evening of tactics, face-offs and raw emotions

The Hindu

The IPL 2023 Qualifier-1 between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans at the M.A. Chennai openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway, with their silky wrists, have found form consistently, and along with power-hitter Shivam Dube, they constitute CSK’s engine room that has churned out success this year. They chased down 198 against RCB in the last league game — their …

1 year, 7 months ago

Hyundai car, SUV line-up gets more safety equipment

The Hindu

Hyundai releases another update for all its cars and SUVs where it has added three-point seatbelts and seatbelt reminders for all seats as standard. These updates have been released ahead of the October 2023 deadline that requires all cars and SUVs to come with six airbags and three-point seatbelts as standard. The new ruling by the government is pushing for …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the excuse

Live Mint

Unless you have been on a social media fast and have also angrily exited all WhatsApp groups last year, surely you have heard by now about Shankar Mishra, a man accused of getting up from his seat in a New York-New Delhi flight and going over and peeing on a fellow passenger and complete stranger. Twisty denied everything and said, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Mumbai Police slams comedian Atul Khatri for making light of city's seat belt law; 'safety is never a joke'

India TV News

Mumbai Police is considered one of the most powerful police forces in the country. Now, they are making waves after they took a humorous dig at comedian Atul Khatri after he mocked Mumbai's new seat belt law. On Tuesday, seatbelts for all drivers and passengers became mandatory in Mumbai, and as soon as the news surfaced, comedian Atul Khatri shared …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Mumbai makes backseat seatbelts mandatory from November 1

India Today

Buckle up even if you are not at the wheel or face the music. From November 1, seatbelts will be mandatory for all car passengers, as per a notification issued by the Mumbai Police on Friday. “All motor vehicle drivers and all commuters in vehicles, whoever travels on the roads of Mumbai City are hereby informed that it will be …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Uber asks its India drivers to ensure rear seatbelts in their cars work

The Hindu

Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies has asked its drivers in India to ensure backseat seatbelts in their vehicles are accessible to passengers and they work, days after a local business tycoon died in a crash involving his private car. "To avoid any fines or complaints by riders, please ensure the seatbelts on the back seats are accessible and functional," Uber said …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Uber issues stern advisory to its drivers, asks them to ‘ensure…’

Hindustan Times

Cab service provider Uber has asked its drivers in India to ensure that the rear seatbelts in their vehicles are accessible to the passengers and they work. Uber told its drivers to ensure the seatbelts on the back seat are accessible and functional to avoid any fines or complaints by the riders, Reuters reported. Uber told its drivers to ensure …

India Drivers Seat Uber Ensure Its Drivers Seatbelts

2 years, 3 months ago

Cyrus Mistry Car Accident: Why Seatbelts Are Important While Driving

News 18

Former chairman of Tata Group, Cyrus Mistry, died in a fatal car crash in Maharashtra. According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau on the ‘Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India’, more than 1.55 lakh lives have been claimed by road accidents in 2021. In 2017, the Road Transport Ministry, while answering questions asked in Parliament, said that …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Cyrus Mistry death: 'Govt to soon introduce fines for not wearing seatbelts in rear seats,' says Gadkari

Firstpost

Although not wearing a seat belt by passengers sitting in the rear seats can still attract a fine of Rs 1,000 under Rule 138 of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, most people are either unaware of the rule or ignore it New Delhi: Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that the government will soon introduce …

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2 years, 3 months ago

'Law in the works to make six airbags in cars mandatory': Nitin Gadkari

Firstpost

Gadkari reminded the audience that the mindset regarding seatbelts needs to change and even people sitting at the back of a vehicle need to wear their seatbelts Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has raised questions about the manufacturing of economy cars and road safety measures in India. The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways has questioned why companies manufacture cars …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Here’s Why a Car’s Airbags are Useless if You Don’t Put on Your Seatbelt

News 18

Over the years, the importance of car safety has risen amongst those buying a new car. A big credit for this goes to the government of India which has mandated dual airbags, seat belt reminders, and rear parking sensors on all cars, irrespective of their price. In order to make the car occupants safe, the seatbelts and airbags work together, …

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2 years, 3 months ago

After Cyrus Mistry's death in road accident, Anand Mahindra urges people to wear seatbelts

India TV News

Well-known industrialist and former Tata Sons chairman Mistry died in a road accident near Mumbai on Sunday evening. Mistry and the co-passenger killed in the car crash on Sunday were not wearing seat belts as per the preliminary probe, a police officer said, adding over-speeding and the "error of judgement" by the driver caused the accident. To spread awareness among …

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NSW government issues more than 11,400 fines to drivers caught by new seatbelt detection cameras

Privacy campaigners' fury as AI speed cameras which can 'spy inside' cars are set to be rolled out nationwide to catch drivers using mobile phones at the wheel or not wearing seatbelts

Climate turbulence ahead: Time to fasten our seatbelts

Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins a second term. Fasten your seatbelts

Tjerk Westerterp, minister for seatbelts and helmets, dies at 92

Tjerk Westerterp, minister for seatbelts and helmets, dies at 92

Australia was a world leader in road safety, but has progress stalled?

'Fasten your seatbelts': Why Trump’s Georgia trial 'could be the most chaotic' in recent memory

Victorian road safety behaviours inquiry shows 'bewildering' number of motorists without seatbelt

Phil Spencer says brother tried to save parents by cutting their seatbelts with a penknife after river crash

Rapido Equips 1000+ Delhi Autos with Seatbelts and Rain Curtains

Smile, you're on camera! Police AI spy van catches nearly 500 offences including motorists on their mobile phones, not wearing seatbelts and even drug-driving in just one week

Fasten your seatbelts for an evening of tactics, face-offs and raw emotions

Hyundai car, SUV line-up gets more safety equipment

Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the excuse

Mumbai Police slams comedian Atul Khatri for making light of city's seat belt law; 'safety is never a joke'

Mumbai makes backseat seatbelts mandatory from November 1

Uber asks its India drivers to ensure rear seatbelts in their cars work

Uber issues stern advisory to its drivers, asks them to ‘ensure…’

Cyrus Mistry Car Accident: Why Seatbelts Are Important While Driving

Cyrus Mistry death: 'Govt to soon introduce fines for not wearing seatbelts in rear seats,' says Gadkari

'Law in the works to make six airbags in cars mandatory': Nitin Gadkari

Here’s Why a Car’s Airbags are Useless if You Don’t Put on Your Seatbelt

After Cyrus Mistry's death in road accident, Anand Mahindra urges people to wear seatbelts