MILEY CYRUS - CYRUS IS BACKED BY TRAVEL SAFETY EXPERT

CYRUS IS BACKED BY TRAVEL SAFETY EXPERT

LATEST: A travel safety expert is furious MILEY CYRUS has faced such heavy criticism for failing to wear a seatbelt in new concert movie HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT TOUR, insisting it's common for filmmakers to avoid such details. The scene features the 15-year-old singer/actress and her country singer dad Billy Ray Cyrus in the back of a Range Rover - with neither of them wearing their seatbelts. And the pair was heavily criticised by U.S. watchdog Consumer Reports for setting a bad example to Cyrus' young fans as a result of their lack of car safety. But lead investigator of a road accident study, Heather Jacobsen, insists the whole affair has been blown out of proportion. She says, "It is the norm for characters in movies to not wear a seatbelt." Family films typically give seatbelts more attention. However, a 1997 study by Michigan State University named Dead Man Walking - starring Sean Penn as a rapist facing execution - as one of the most seatbelt-friendly movies, depicting buckled-up drivers in five of the film's six driving scenes.