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Programme introduced by Tony Francis. The first report looks at car seat belt legislation a year since the wearing of front belts was made compulsory. In a film report Rob Golding investigates the law which is said to be saving ten lives a week. There are now calls for rear seat belts to be compulsory to save more lives. We see views of traffic in Birmingham, test accidents shot at the Transport Road Research Laboratory and shots showing the aftermath of road accidents. Golding talks to Murray McKay who heads the accident research unit at the University of Birmingham about the need for rear seat belts. We then see views of traffic showing the high numbers of rear seat passengers, particularly children, who do not wear belts. Golding next talks to Dick Hunt of Britax Excelsior Ltd who show the anchorage points fitted in a Ford Fiesta and some of the child seats available.
Back in the studio Golding introduces this week’s Mood of the Midlands interactive poll in which selected viewers can vote via an interactive television on the subject of seat belts. Next Tony Francis introduces the Counterpoint spot in which he answers a viewer’s problem which this week involves a cancellation fee levied by Debenhams on a three piece suite when the firm could not confirm a delivery date.
The next item looks at household burglary. In Nottingham, Paul Martin meets professional burglar Paul James who demonstrates how he gains entry via a window to a property. He is interviewed about what he looks for in a house and the morality of what he does. Paul Martin also talks to two victims of burglary. We see a reconstruction of Paul James breaking into a house and searching inside followed by him selling a video recorder to a 'fence' in a car. Back in the studio Tony Francis talks to Superintendent Graham Needham of the Crime Prevention Centre in Staffordshire about burglary. Near the end of the programme there is a gap where the live Mood of the Midlands result was inserted.
Film extracts courtesy of Ford Motor Company and Transport Road Research Laboratory
Film Cameras: Kevin Latimer; Noel Smart
Film Sound: Bill Dodkin; Frank Minton
Film Editors: Roland Brason; Ric O'Connor
Production Assistants: Diana East; Dorothy Friend; Christine Turner
Graphics: Dave Beeson
Research: Catherine Sloyan
Studio Director: Steve Turner
Film Directors: Norman Hull; Richard Key
Executive Producer: David Gerrard
Editor: George Mitchell
Production number 3593/84.