WEARING a seatbelt or using a mobile while driving are offences that the police rightly focus on to keep our roads safe.

In the past week some 36 drivers, mostly young men, in the Ribble Valley have been stopped for offences including speeding, failing to wear seatbelts, using mobile phones, drink-driving and driving with no insurance.

Meanwhile in Nelson, it took just two hours to catch 27 motorists who were driving without seatbelts on.

Too many people are killed or seriously injured on the roads in East Lancashire and simply putting on a seatbelt is the least any right-thinking motorist should do.

In the past, The Lancashire Telegraph has campaigned through ‘Wasted Lives’ and ‘Love Your Kids? Belt Them In’ because of the sheer stupidity of some people’s behaviour on our roads.

They put not only themselves in danger but also other road users and pedestrians.

A lot of young drivers believe they have a free reign to drive however they like.

But through police efforts, and those of the campaigners, we must get the message across to all of those irresponsible drivers that their actions are totally unacceptable.