A six-year-old girl had a seat belt across her throat because she was sitting on her mother’s lap in the front of a car.

The family were moving house and the back seat was full of items being transported to their new home.

Police stopped the vehicle in Martyrs Avenue, Crawley, during a week-long crackdown on seat-belt offences across the county.

The girl’s father was driving the car – and he now faces prosecution for putting.