Mobile phone law

[cuneus]

Piece in the local rag:

"More than 2,700 people have been issued with fines by police in the first 11 months of this year despite stronger penalties being imposed."

that's just for Suffolk

[10 Pence Short]

What's your take on it?

[cuneus]

People seem to be completely ignoring the law (and this is mainly after the penalty went up)

Does not seem to be much of a deterrent

[Percy Flage]

I use a Parrot minikit in the car. It works well, most of the time.

At first I put the number of people I saw using their mobiles whilst driving down to their ignorance of the law.

Now I genuinely believe it is because these people think you'd have to be very unfortunate to actually be caught on the phone when driving, simply because of the almost complete absence of traf-pol and walkie-plod on the streets.

Perhaps they're developing a camera that picks up mobile signals?

[EU_Foreigner]

White van man and the 18 year old girls in their entry model Corsa's don't have hands free sets so they continue to use the mobile no matter what.

Still amazes me to see delivery van drivers with the phone to their ears looking for places ...

[fatboy b]

Saw a guy in Banbury at the weekend while it was pi$$ing down. Fag in one hand, mobile in the other, totally oblivious to the fact he was wandering across a couple of lanes while he decided where he should be going. Tosser!

[black1]

arnt all banbury boys tossers ?

[cuneus]

FishFace said:

cuneus said:

Piece in the local rag:

"More than 2,700 people have been issued with fines by police in the first 11 months of this year despite stronger penalties being imposed."

that's just for Suffolk

How many is that compared to before? Maybe they use no discretion now?

"is likely to have increased by nearly 15 per cent at the end of 2007 compared with 2006."

It's £60 and 3 points since 01.03.07

[henrycrun]

You can show 3 fingers to em !