Using a mobile phone when driving – what is new ?
The purpose of the law To ensure safety on the roads and to protect other road users. Looking at or using your mobile phone whilst driving is distracting and prevents you fully concentrating on the road ahead. The old law It was an offence to use your mobile phone for performing an interactive communication function. […]
Using a mobile phone whilst driving – The Law
The Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it an offence to use a hand-held mobile phone while driving. This also applies to any other hand-held interactive communication device such as a sat nav connected to the internet, tablet or IPAD. A hand-held device is something that “is or must be held at some point during the […]
Mobile Phone Use – New Higher Penalty
Following an increasingly vocal campaign to recognise driving on the phone as being as dangerous as driving whilst drunk, whose proponents include Theresa May, the RAC and the solicitor Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman, the government has passed an amendment to the existing law increasing the penalties for using your mobile whilst driving. The Road Traffic […]
Driving Whilst Using a Mobile Phone
The current mobile phone legislation was introduced to prevent drivers using a mobile phone whilst driving due to the safety issues. It is an obvious distraction if a driver is looking at their phone and could potentially cause an accident because the driver is not looking at the road ahead. Current Law Currently a […]