Summoning to court for mobile use while driving

Dekota

I appreciate everybody's sentiment but I do think this should be dealt with on a case by case fashion, my case being yes I didn't have it on a cradle and no I normally do not use a phone off a cradle while driving only in this instance as I bought this phone. Yes, I should have bought a cradle straight away but in light of the fact that I normally don't use the handheld device in my hand, wouldn't that mitigate the penalty fine at the very least?

I would appreciate if someone who has been spared penalty points after being summoned for a motoring offense to private message me please.

BeenThroughItAll

Dekota wrote: »

I normally don't use the handheld device in my hand, wouldn't that mitigate the penalty fine at the very least?

Let's just say your husband/wife/partner said to you "I don't normally have sex with other people, so shouldn't that mitigate your anger at my transgression"; would you just let them off unpunished?

Thought not.

DUTR

Dekota wrote: »

I appreciate everybody's sentiment but I do think this should be dealt with on a case by case fashion, my case being yes I didn't have it on a cradle and no I normally do not use a phone off a cradle while driving only in this instance as I bought this phone. Yes, I should have bought a cradle straight away but in light of the fact that I normally don't use the handheld device in my hand, wouldn't that mitigate the penalty fine at the very least?

I would appreciate if someone who has been spared penalty points after being summoned for a motoring offense to private message me please.

They are dealt with on a case by case basis, regulation states, do not hold or operate a mobile and/or other communication devices in a moving vehicle.
Were you doing that?
Yes,
case closed, next case......
Having an iphone doesn't exempt you from traffic laws.
You could have phoned ahead before starting the vehicle. There are lots of things you could have done to avoid doing the deed and more so getting caught, worse than the deed is the getting caught, as proabaly daily I see people contravening the regulation, so you couldn't have been concentrating to the point you drew attention to yourself to be caught.

Dekota

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Let's just say your husband/wife/partner said to you "I don't normally have sex with other people, so shouldn't that mitigate your anger at my transgression"; would you just let them off unpunished?

Thought not.

You don't need to use an extreme example to prove a point, I am also blessed with common sense to understand what you are getting across.

Clive_Woody

Dekota wrote: »

You don't need to use an extreme example to prove a point, I am also blessed with common sense to understand what you are getting across.

What you normally do is irrelevant, the judge will only be interested in what you are accused of doing this time and you do not deny that you were driving while using a handheld device on a frosty morning (presumably when road conditions could have been poor and two hands for driving was even more important - HINT: I wouldn't go on too much about it being frosty).

I would go with the bit about not understanding the caution as I think they have you bang to rights on all other counts and protesting is only going to annoy the judge.

straighttalker

How does a frosty morning have any impact on your situation OP?

Dekota

straighttalker wrote: »

How does a frosty morning have any impact on your situation OP?

It doesn't, only that I shouldn't have set foot out of the house and called in sick as people do.

For god's sake, if I knew this cop was trying to give me a warning and about to hand out an 'FPN' to me and that was that, why would I be hell bent on getting myself into court. I'm telling you, if he'd have used the word 'warning' instead of 'cautioning' I would have understood and paid no fuss. It's going to court because of my misunderstanding of what he meant by caution. Thinking about it, I suppose they haven't got time to explain themselves and I'll go through with it and plead guilty which I was doing on part of using my phone when he told me about it, however I wasnt willing to accept the not wearing seat belt.

Thanks all for your help.

DUTR

Dekota wrote: »

It doesn't, only that I shouldn't have set foot out of the house and called in sick as people do.

For god's sake, if I knew this cop was trying to give me a warning and about to hand out an 'FPN' to me and that was that, why would I be hell bent on getting myself into court. I'm telling you, if he'd have used the word 'warning' instead of 'cautioning' I would have understood and paid no fuss. It's going to court because of my misunderstanding of what he meant by caution. Thinking about it, I suppose they haven't got time to explain themselves and I'll go through with it and plead guilty which I was doing on part of using my phone when he told me about it, however I wasnt willing to accept the not wearing seat belt.

Thanks all for your help.

Have you ordered a phone holder now?

Dekota

DUTR wrote: »

Have you ordered a phone holder now?

I have bought one today.

londonTiger

police forces have had cutbacks all across the board and levying pcn is a revenue generation strategy that's used very frequently. dont given them an excuse, drive super carefully. dont be put under pressure by work or anyone to rush and fall foul.