Learner driver fined more than $6,000 over unrestrained children

Key points

• A 22-year-old learner driver from Redbank Plains has been fined $6,077 and given 25 demerit points, police say. Officers allege that four teenagers were travelling unrestrained in her vehicle on 14 October.
• She was issued seven traffic infringement notices, including for unrestrained passengers and driving unaccompanied.
• Senior Sergeant Jarrad Tyne of the Ipswich Highway Patrol said every child must be properly restrained in a vehicle, as seatbelts and child restraints protect lives.