It’s that time of year when festivities and Christmas celebrations can overtake our common sense.
Any other time of year, people are unlikely to clutter their cars with items dangling from the outside of their car, their rear view mirrors, have inflammable Christmas decorations taped around steering wheels and cards sellotaped to windows and the dashboards.
Whilst it is perfectly legal to include some items, however, the law of common sense says that you should not affix anything that could:
1. Affect your vision whilst driving
2. Could cause injury to the driver or passengers in the event of an accident or following sudden evasive action
3. Affects your ability to drive the vehicle and manage the controls
It is appreciated that many will simply say “I don’t do such things or have any items likely to cause injury anyway so this reminder doesn’t affect me”.
Now have a closer look at your children’s cars, your friends’ cars and basically any car that you are likely to travel in. You may even have bought the accessories for them and then ask yourself the question again – could you be affected?
The chances are that if you look close enough, you will find items that put your wellbeing at risk in the event of an accident, just like someone sitting in the rear of a car without their seatbelt will, in all likelihood cause serious injury to both themselves and the front seat passengers in the event of an accident.