“Absurd, anyone would have stopped under these circumstances”

Britton, driving his VW Beetle convertible, was accompanied by his daughter and grandchildren, Alfie and Leo. They stopped for a few minutes as Alfie managed to unbuckle his seatbelt from his car seat: “Children are unpredictable. You can’t predict this stuff. “There’s nowhere to park near the freeway,” Elaine told The Sun. “He tried to get out of the seat. We made a quick stop to fasten his seat belt again. It took two or three minutes at most.

But a few weeks later, Forties received a fine in her mailbox: “It’s ridiculous, someone would have stopped in these circumstances,” she protests. “I’m a nurse, I work long hours, I don’t get paid much. We don’t always have days off,” she continued.

Testifying in the Sun columns, Elaine is seeking to overturn the fine: “This is an emergency and a safety issue”. Meanwhile, Britain refuses to pay: “It’s a matter of policy,” she concludes.