Drivers Could Face Fines For Paying With Phone At Drive-Thru

[meatballs]

From my favourite news outlet:

https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-drivers-could-fac...

[matjk]

Been doing the rounds on Facebook for ages , scaremongering at its finest , or better described as click bate I guess

[scottyp123]

Doesn't the law regarding mobile phones only apply to "roads" and not "other public spaces" like insurance laws do?

[rlw]

scottyp123 said:

Doesn't the law regarding mobile phones only apply to "roads" and not "other public spaces" like insurance laws do?

yawn.................

[jamei303]

If you stop at the drive-through with the car in gear and your foot on the clutch, and then attempt to pay with your phone and drop it by your feet, and in reaching to pick it up your foot comes off the clutch and you lurch forward into a child, yes you might well be lucky to get a fine.

[irocfan]

jamei303 said:

If you stop at the drive-through with the car in gear and your foot on the clutch, and then attempt to pay with your phone and drop it by your feet, and in reaching to pick it up your foot comes off the clutch and you lurch forward into a child, yes you might well be lucky to get a fine.

No different to dropping a note or shrapnel by your feet - at those sorts of times neutral with handbrake on should be good (only?) practice

[scottyp123]

rlw said:

scottyp123 said:

Doesn't the law regarding mobile phones only apply to "roads" and not "other public spaces" like insurance laws do?

yawn.................

How can that question warrant an answer like that, its either a simple yes or no. If the answer is no then you can indeed get charged wit using a phone on Mcdonalds land. If its a yes then you can't be prosecuted for it regardless of the moral rights or wrongs. I'm sure I read somewhere a while ago that someone tried to label the Mcdonalds drive through bit as a road so it should be enforced but I don't think it got very far.

Answers like yours smack of not wanting anyone to find out the truth because you don't personally agree with it.

[Alucidnation]

jamei303 said:

If you stop at the drive-through with the car in gear and your foot on the clutch, and then attempt to pay with your phone and drop it by your feet, and in reaching to pick it up your foot comes off the clutch and you lurch forward into a child, yes you might well be lucky to get a fine.

Indeed, as a lot of people walk through a drive through.

[Downward]

I’d love it if this happened. Literally money for stupidity.

Not sure how it would work with an electric car ? You can just turn it on and off when not moving.

[DoubleD]

jamei303 said:

If you stop at the drive-through with the car in gear and your foot on the clutch, and then attempt to pay with your phone and drop it by your feet, and in reaching to pick it up your foot comes off the clutch and you lurch forward into a child, yes you might well be lucky to get a fine.

All of that would take some doing!

[anonymous-user]

scottyp123 said:

rlw said:

scottyp123 said:

Doesn't the law regarding mobile phones only apply to "roads" and not "other public spaces" like insurance laws do?

yawn.................

How can that question warrant an answer like that, its either a simple yes or no. If the answer is no then you can indeed get charged wit using a phone on Mcdonalds land. If its a yes then you can't be prosecuted for it regardless of the moral rights or wrongs. I'm sure I read somewhere a while ago that someone tried to label the Mcdonalds drive through bit as a road so it should be enforced but I don't think it got very far.

Answers like yours smack of not wanting anyone to find out the truth because you don't personally agree with it.

My understanding is that a drive-through may not be a 'road' for the purposes of the legislation.

See if someone like AGT can clarify.

[craig_m67]

It is in Australia

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/moto...

McDonalds is bad for you^





^other Lifestyles available, see your Dr if pain persists, mileage may vary, yada yada

[NikBartlett]

I could very easily stand on the grass next to our local Mac D drivethrough, film every purchase made using a mobile for say 30 minutes and then upload the footage to our local police force website. If there was outrage in the local rag a few weeks later then we would know the story regarding fines is true

[okenemem]

foolishness

[4rephill]

scottyp123 said:

How can that question warrant an answer like that, its either a simple yes or no. If the answer is no then you can indeed get charged wit using a phone on Mcdonalds land. If its a yes then you can't be prosecuted for it regardless of the moral rights or wrongs. I'm sure I read somewhere a while ago that someone tried to label the Mcdonalds drive through bit as a road so it should be enforced but I don't think it got very far.

Answers like yours smack of not wanting anyone to find out the truth because you don't personally agree with it.

I think you'll find it was a yawn of boredom because the basis of this subject is so old, it's pretty much been done to death

[agtlaw]

The offence can only be committed “on a road.” Not “a road or other public place” but “on a road.”

I’ve not seen a McDonalds drive-through that would fit that description.

[eldar]

4rephill said:

I think you'll find it was a yawn of boredom because the basis of this subject is so old, it's pretty much been done to death

The smartarse yawn of tttery.

[Chris32345]

agtlaw said:

The offence can only be committed “on a road.” Not “a road or other public place” but “on a road.”

I’ve not seen a McDonalds drive-through that would fit that description.

Road traffic laws generally apply to any public accessible road or car park

Hence why you still need a lisence and insurance to drive around a car park so would think phone laws would apply to a drive through



That being said I highly doubt anycop would inforce it

[agtlaw]

Chris32345 said:

Road traffic laws generally apply to any public accessible road or car park

Hence why you still need a lisence and insurance to drive around a car park so would think phone laws would apply to a drive through
That being said I highly doubt anycop would inforce it

Try reading the legislation before commenting.

[RB Will]

A friend of mine is a serving policeman and he uses his phone to pay for McDonald’s/ KFC etc. So even if it is technically naughty you probably won’t get done for it