Drivers, ensure that passengers in the backseat are wearing seat belts. Especially if you are travelling on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway. For the first time, highway traffic police have begun to penalise drivers on the Expressway, when they found travellers in the back seat of vehicles were not wearing seat belts.

In the past week, a total of 1,100 drivers were fined, as per the amendments in the Central Motor Vehicle Act (CMVA). The drivers were charged Rs 200 each under Section 138 (3) of the Act.