Loophole to be closed on phone use at the wheel.

[Cycleops]

Glad to see that legislation will be changed so that using a phone for any purpose while driving will result in prosection. Previously a driver who had his conviction quashed for filming an accident because he wasn't making a call;
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50250730

 

[winjim]

Legislation hasn't been changed.

 

[Cycleops]

Sorry, but will be changed.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

About time.

 

[mjr]

Sorry, but will be changed.

Will it? Is it going to get through before next Wednesday and Parliament is dissolved?

 

[cyberknight]

still got to catch em , so it will make fark all difference to people behavior

 

[mjr]

still got to catch em , so it will make fark all difference to people behavior

Makes it slightly easier to catch 'em if you've no longer to prove that the phoney driver is using it to make a call or send a message. I hope they also outlaw the ones who leave the phone on their lap or prop it by the handbrake - there's good reason why instrument displays are mounted just below the windscreen, not by the driver's knees - and any display being mounted where it conceals part of the windscreen.

 

[Banjo]

Even if the phone is in a holder the driver is still distracted .In many places of work phones are not allowed for safety reasons and rightly so.

 

[presta]

I don't see why they shouldn't just extend it to cover any device that's not essential to driving the car or medical needs.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I don't see why they shouldn't just extend it to cover any device that's not essential to driving the car or medical needs.

Like radio's & cigarettes?

 

[cyberknight]

Makes it slightly easier to catch 'em if you've no longer to prove that the phoney driver is using it to make a call or send a message. I hope they also outlaw the ones who leave the phone on their lap or prop it by the handbrake - there's good reason why instrument displays are mounted just below the windscreen, not by the driver's knees - and any display being mounted where it conceals part of the windscreen.

coppers aint that bothered though i gave details of a caller to the police , phone number van reg ,time, date etc outside of a school and plod didnt want to know .

 

[mjr]

coppers aint that bothered though i gave details of a caller to the police , phone number van reg ,time, date etc outside of a school and plod didnt want to know .

I think you may be overgeneralizing but more encouragement for police to enforce this might help too.

 

[Cycleops]

coppers aint that bothered though i gave details of a caller to the police , phone number van reg ,time, date etc outside of a school and plod didnt want to know .

Probably insufficient evidence. If you had footage of the offence it would make prosection easier I guess.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Probably insufficient evidence. If you had footage of the offence it would make prosection easier I guess.

Unless you have this it's just a he said they said situation which would never get to court.

 

[derrick]

Who is going to police it. i see drivers on there phones all the time, No police to stop them, the ones that see them normally turn a blind eye.