15 November 2023 , 19:48
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Police who pulled over a car on the motorway were stunned when they discovered 15 people crammed inside the vehicle without seatbelts.
Traffic officers from North West Motorway Police stopped a black Vauxhall Zafira on the M62 in Cheshire today (November 15) as they suspected the seven-seater had too many passengers. Their suspicions were quickly proved correct with more than twice the legal limit squeezed inside the vehicle.
As well as having too many people inside the car, nobody was wearing a seatbelt - which has been a legal requirement in the UK since 1965. Police said there were children alongside the adults and added they had given out Traffic Offence Reports over the incident.
North West Motorway Police tweeted: "This vehicle was stopped by a Cheshire Motorway Patrol on M62 as the vehicle looked overloaded. They were shocked to find 15 people in the vehicle (including children), all unrestrained. Driver and unrestrained adults issued Traffic Offence Reports."
Their tweet has since been seen more than 70,000 times on X, formerly Twitter, with one joker writing: "You should notify the Guinness book of records!" and another adding: "They need to go on Britain's Got Talent with that trick." But someone else pointed out the severity of the situation and asked: “How can the driver and other adults in the vehicle consider themselves as loving and caring and responsible adults and then do something like this?”
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