Reversing the car

Irish Salfordia

Stark wrote:

That exemption only applies to driving testers, not instructors.

Sorry, but check your new or old version of the rules of te road and you wills see that driving instructors are excluded during driving lessons.

Stark

How does that work exactly? Anyone can be a driving instructor at the moment with just a driving licence. I could be in the car with someone driving on a provisional and I could be classed as a driving instructor. Does that mean I'm exempt from wearing a seatbelt in that instance?

I could see how the law would work if they had a Government registrar of driving instructors but at the moment they don't.

timmywex

Wishbone Ash wrote:

No, not at all. Legislation regarding seatbelts cannot account for every situation therefore it is easier to exempt rather that draft legislation which can account for every situation. There is no requirement that individual Gardaí do not wear a seatbelt. It is a matter of choice. For example, Gardaí are occasionally required to restrain difficult prisoners in patrol cars. This would be very difficult while wearing a seatbelt.

posted without thinking there, gardai are advised to wear seat belts and many of their new cars have that beeping yoke on them, however, my dad was a detective for a long time and he said he never wore one because of the nature of his work, for example, if he was escorting something, he would always need to be out of the car fast and he would have his gun in his holster ready to go but he said the seatbelt got in the way of the machine gun when doing escorts, on chases aswell, they need to jump out fast

Vegeta

Unless you are overweight I cannot see why you'd need to take off your seat belt to reverse.

Also I have no problems reversing with two hands on the wheel.

Definitely use the back window, mirrors, front glance and blind spot a number of times when reversing.