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About 150 drivers have been caught not wearing seat belts across Dorset during a week-long crackdown by motor patrol police. Those caught were fined by officers for not buckling up during the operation between 15 and 21 February. During that week one backseat passenger who was not wearing a seat belt suffered serious injuries after going through a car windscreen, police said. Dorset Police said a significant number of drivers continued to flout the law. Ch Insp Bob Nichols from Dorset Police said of the recent incident: "Locally, a collision in north Dorset involved a rear-seat passenger who was not wearing a seat belt, allowing him to go through the windscreen, causing serious injury. "Fortunately, he missed the front seat passenger and driver who appear to have been belted in, and who sustained only minor injuries."
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