LONDON (AP) U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fined by police on Friday for taking off his seat belt to film a social media video in a moving car.

Sunak, 42, has apologized for making an error of judgment while recording a message for Instagram from the back of an official government car during a visit to northwest England on Thursday.

The Lancashire Police force said it had looked into video circulating on social media showing an individual failing to wear a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car in Lancashire. The force said, without naming Sunak, that it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of fixed penalty.

Failing to wear a seat belt is punishable by a penalty of up to 500 pounds ($620), though fixed penalty notices for such offenses are usually 100 pounds ($124) if paid promptly.