Brad Pitt has invited critisism by having a Britney-style lapse in judgement and driving with his daughter perched on his lap.

The actor was snapped with two-year-old Shiloh - who doesn't appear to be wearing a seatbelt or a helmet - as he steered a golf buggy on a quad bike track during a family day out in the south of France.

"Children shouldn't be sitting on parents laps when driving a vehicle because the child could be distraction to the driver," says a spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

"And should there be an accident the child would be put in a dangerous position."

She added, "Children should be in their own seat in the vehicle."

In February 2006, Britney Spears famously provoked outrage when she was pictured driving in busy traffic with her then five-month-old son Sean Preston on her lap.