Step In The Right Direction.........?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/now-drivers-will-face-%c2%a3200-fine-for-even-touching-their-phone-while-driving-as-uk-installs-new-hd-traffic-cameras-that-can-catch-motorists-in-the-act/ar-AAJFixx?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
But they should treat it the same as DD, much more dangerous especially texting.

[vulcan42]

I'm not sure why the judges considered this as a loophole in the beginning. Motorist are, if proved, are being charged for using the phone to make a call or for other interactive communication. Surely if you take a photograph and show it to somebody that is an interactive communication.

[jourdain2]

Of course no-one should use a phone when driving, I turn mine off. I'm unsure about this 'even touching' a phone, though. I'd to brake hard once and mine slid out of my handbag - so at the next traffic lights to stop me, I put it back. Do you mean to say that someone would be fined for doing that?
Appropos. - virtually every tractor driver around here (and there are a lot) uses the phone whilst trundling along. Try seeing the number-plate through the mud!

[david small]

I do not have a mobile phone, nor do I ever want one.
I find them intrusive, addictive, and bloody annoying.

[New Judge]

//Surely if you take a photograph and show it to somebody that is an interactive communication.//

No it isn't. The High Court was quite specific when it was asked, by the DPP, to interpret the statute. They did so following a successful appeal in the Crown Court by Ramsey Barreto against his conviction in the Magistrates' Court for using his mobile phone to film an accident as he was driving past:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/19-07-31-DPP-v-Barreto-Ref.-CO2702019-Judgment.pdf

It was this judgement which has led to today's announcement that the law will be changed.

[ummmm]

I think a step in the right direction. My son and I were knocked over on a pedestrian crossing by a moron on his phone!

^^the police told me that, I obviously didn't see him on the phone.