Seatbelt
At about 10.30pm on a Saturday, I was working with a Senior Constable in a plain car. We were working as a combined section for the motor show crowd that night. We stopped behind a car and observed that the driver had no seatbelt on.
The car had several people in it, but we were able to see past all the passengers and see the driver's seatbelt at the B pillar. We pulled the car in, and the driver was given a seatbelt notice. He was belligerent, as young males can be at times.
Several hours later we attended a crash at a nearby intersection. A driver had failed to stop at the stop sign and had collided with a car. Speed through the Stop sign was given as 50 to 60 km/h so the driver simply had not seen the sign. This was a serious crash, the speeds being far higher than you would encounter in the city. The vehicles involved were badly damaged.
The offending driver in the crash was the same driver we had ticketed earlier in the shift. That seatbelt ticket may have saved his life, as he was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.
At the time, that seatbelt ticket appeared an ordinary ticket, but then we had a graphic display of just how valuable such tickets can be.