"Wearing a seatbelt saved my life."
More than 1,000 motorists have been caught failing to put on a seatbelt in the last four months alone.
The figures from Essex Police come ahead of the 40th anniversary of the introduction of laws which force motorists to wear seatbelts.
This week, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak received a fixed penalty notice for not wearing a seatbelt in a car in which he was a passenger.
大象传媒 Essex speaks to Lee Potter from Loughton, who had to be cut from his car when he crashed in Epping Forest in 2008. He's told Sonia Watson that if he hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, he wouldn't be here today.
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