Drivers who use mobile phones while they are driving or fail to wear their seatbelts are warned that a crackdown starts today, Monday.

Offending motorists spotted on camera will be pulled over by police.

They could be fined £60 and get three points on their licence for a mobile phone offence, while not weating a seatbelt results in a £30 fine. The driver will also be fined if children in the car have not belted up.

The Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership and Kent Police are running the week-long crackdown across the county.

The enforcement will see mobile safety cameras at sites until Monday, February 22. The activity will happen at mobile camera locations in Medway on Wednesday

Katherine Barrett, from the partnership, said: “Our safety cameras are at locations where people have been killed or seriously injured, so by reducing the number of offences committed at these sites we hope to lower casualties even further.

“We are not coy about our operations and all the camera locations and statistics can be seen at: www.kmscp.org.”

Chief Insp Roscoe Walford, head of roads policing, said: “There are four main factors that contribute to collisions which end with serious consequences.

They are speeding, being distracted while driving (talking on the telephone), not wearing seat belts and drink driving.”

It’s part of the latest European TISPOL road safety campaign. TISPOL was established by the traffic police forces of Europe in order to improve road safety and law enforcement on the roads.