[FrozeninTime]

Originally Posted by chandrda

Wearing of Seat Belt for rear seat occupants to be made mandatory as per News. Fine to be imposed for not wearing. Not sure if the driver has to pay or the occupants.

https://www.news18.com/news/auto/rea...d-5903791.html

If the educated and well heeled section of society are breaking traffic laws, then no matter what new laws, fines are imposed nothing will change. This is more of behavioural issue which government should needs to address rather than taking knee jerk reaction.

[AJ56]

Seatbelts shouldn’t be mandatory, front or rear. If someone’s daft enough to not wear one I believe natural selection should be allowed to do it’s job unimpeded, their genes being left out of the future generations’ gene pool isn’t necessarily a negative in my opinion.

[SLK]

Originally Posted by AJ56

Seatbelts shouldn’t be mandatory, front or rear. If someone’s daft enough to not wear one I believe natural selection should be allowed to do it’s job unimpeded, their genes being left out of the future generations’ gene pool isn’t necessarily a negative in my opinion.

Civilization is taught and not in genes, so I won't call it natural selection. I hope you were joking!

Back to topic: 4 on the back seat is very common in India, wonder what will they do for that, if back seat belt is made mandatory. And what about those Omni school vans, with 15 children? (don't know how parents do that!).

I've had such bitter demeaning exchanges and responses while recommending rear seat belts to some colleagues travelling on Yamuna expressway that I'm never recommending that to anyone again.

This should be made mandatory by law and let the law take its course like they did for front belts.

Originally Posted by chandrda

Not sure if the driver has to pay or the occupants.

Exactly the point - most people in the rear have been so ignorant and arrogant that one has to wonder, whether driver has to pay the fine?

[NG_EV]

Originally Posted by chandrda

Wearing of Seat Belt for rear seat occupants to be made mandatory as per News. Fine to be imposed for not wearing. Not sure if the driver has to pay or the occupants.

https://www.news18.com/news/auto/rea...d-5903791.html

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/fine...ndtv_topscroll

Regards

Rear seat belts are mandatory with a fine of Rs 1000.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/not-wearing-seat-belt-on-rear-seat-will-invite-penality-nitin-gadkari-9139681.html/amp

From the article above

Although not wearing a seat belt by passengers sitting in the rear seats attracts a fine of Rs 1,000 under Rule 138 (3) of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR), most people are either unaware of this mandatory rule or just ignore them. Even traffic policemen seldom fine passengers sitting on rear seats for not wearing seat belts.

[alpha1]

I remember countless taxi cabs (plying Mumbai-Pune), whose drivers, in the spirit of decorating their vehicles, modify the rear seating rendering the seat belts inaccessible.

When confronted, their initial sheepish response is "no one asks for it" which transforms into "not required" and finally settling at "there are no fines".

I am glad this rule has come in, however the enforcement will be difficult. Cops can mostly make out the front seat belts, but how will they recognize the rear seat belt not worn by passengers?

[volkman10]

Whoever drives a motor vehicle without wearing a safety belt or carries passengers not wearing seat belts shall be punishable: Mumbai Police

[itwasntme]

Originally Posted by volkman10

Whoever drives a motor vehicle without wearing a safety belt or carries passengers not wearing seat belts shall be punishable: Mumbai Police

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...le66032507.ece

Similar for Karnataka