6 points and £200 for mobile use

[Rogerborg]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37389800

Yes, Biking News because moar karma never forget.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/carcrash-police-378389.jpg
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[grr666]

I can't imagine it will change any behaviour in the slightest. We had a 'Car seat safety' checkpoint set up here a few
days ago, with a half dozen fuzz pulling the Audis and Quashquais over to check it they had booster seats and whatnot.
I would have checked the phones as well while I had them stopped there. It was in for the entire day. They probably raised
a whopping 500 quid in revenue.
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[Itchy]

TPTB can make as many laws as they want. If there are no traffic police to enforce them or they can't be bothered then it is pointless.

EDIT

UK has 2nd lowest police per capita yet 3rd highest recorded crime in Europe.
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[Rogerborg]

Mostly pointless, sure. I've seen a copvan stopped in a cycle box with a mobile clamped to the hypocritical scvm's face.

Some Farces do run a fun sting though where they drive around in unmarked cars calling the numbers on the side of work vans. If the driver answers, BAM, nicked. Entrapment thread.
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[ScaredyCat]

[RhynoCZ]

They say the fine and number of points doubles, well it could as well tripple, as people won't care. The laws in CZE say, that the driver shall not manipulate or handle any telephone or other voice and recording devices (yes, fidling with your GoPro while driving is not cool). People just don't give a feck.

I once saw a woman in a SUV, that was holding a yogurt in her left hand and a spoon in her right hand, feeding her child on the front seat of the car.
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[Matt B]

So I'm actually going to have to start walking to play Pokemon Go now?
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[Rogerborg]

[Pigeon]

It seems quite tricky to enforce, that said there is a certain element of self-policing here because the fine is quite big as is the points penalty.

If a person truly believes they will never get caught, then yes, death penalty won't be a deterrent.

It does also raise the issue into current affairs again, so focuses the mind again a little.

Better to have done it than not.


I was nearly taken out on an NSL road a couple of years ago when sat in stationary traffic and a LWB Merc van came squealing up my outside (tyre smoke and everything) into path of oncoming traffic.
He had the phone clamped by his hand to the steering wheel and was locked rigid, probably in a bit of shock.

My fault for sitting at back of queue of traffic of course.

[Commuter_Tim]

I like australian methods of catching the dipshits on phones...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkesvTYmvg8

Granted I can't remember ever seeing a Police Biker in Britain.
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[recman]

Next driver I see on the phone will be on the sharp end of my citizens arrest.

[nitrosurf]

I once answered the phone at 120mph whilst on the back wheel and (obviously) wearing no helmet. The only points I got were on the Richter scale when the earth shook because Batman told everyone how cool I was.

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[nitrosurf]

What they should do is divert some of the revenue ploughed into scameras and the like into paying for plod's to catch dipshits doing dumb balls stuff like talking on handsfree whilst updating Facebook and eating a panini. Phew, using no punctuation is hard work.

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[Itchy]

[Derivative]

I'd hand out bans for texting, reading the news, whatever whilst driving. Totally bonkers. Far more dangerous than 60 in a 30 or whatever.

The 'undue distress' defences or whatever that allow people to use their jobs to escape a ban seem backwards, too.

If you drive a car for the lols as opposed to for work, a ban is less of a deterrent.

[Rogerborg]

Ah! Bike related, I've just realised that the CU80 offence code also applies to "control of the vehicle". That covers wheelie good fun, or at a stretch, standing on the pegs or riding with one hand off the bars because 2 cool 4 school.
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[Vifferguy]

https://www.jammer4uk.com/mini-portable-cellphone-jammer-j260a-p-5.html

60 squid, but what fun!!!!

[Rogerborg]

[Suntan Sid]

If this is going to be policed with the same vigour as the "Motorway/middlelanehogging/dawdlers/tailgaters" clampdown, that was announced a while ago, it's utterly pointless!
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[Fizzoid]

[ScaredyCat]

[Rogerborg]

[Vifferguy]

So much for a discussion about texting & driving, now which fucktart railroaded this thread???

[Rogerborg]

Thanks, Obama.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike