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Fixed Speed Camera - Speeding and mobile phone use?

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  • Silver-Surfer_2
    Silver-Surfer_2 Posts: 1,849 Forumite
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    edited 19 December 2025 at 8:30PM
    [quote=[Deleted User];70666539]Three, if you count careless or dangerous driving ....[/QUOTE]

    Then if using the phone when speeding is careless or dangerous it's only one offence.
  • Iceweasel
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    edited 19 December 2025 at 8:30PM
    [quote=[Deleted User];70666523]Only if they knew the phone number.[/QUOTE]

    If the Polizei were sufficiently bothered, I think that would only take a minute or two.
  • Silver-Surfer_2
    Silver-Surfer_2 Posts: 1,849 Forumite
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    Iceweasel wrote: »
    If the Polizei were sufficiently bothered, I think that would only take a minute or two.

    Really, how could they do that?

    Obtaining subscriber details and showing the number in use at the time would not be proof.
  • TonyMMM
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    Plenty of cases where holding a phone to your ear has been deemed sufficient to be "using" it as far as the law is concerned - there is no need to look at any phone logs,

    A picture (if clear enough) would be enough to charge , and probably convict - but if no issue is raised about the speeding it is unlikely to be looked at closely.
  • Iceweasel
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    Silver-Surfer wrote: »
    Really, how could they do that?

    Obtaining subscriber details and showing the number in use at the time would not be proof.

    I think that the forces of evil - sorry good - can do a lot better than that.

    Surveillance is pretty near absolute these days - but only the paranoid are sure of it. ;)
  • Silver-Surfer_2
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    Iceweasel wrote: »
    I think that the forces of evil - sorry good - can do a lot better than that.

    Surveillance is pretty near absolute these days - but only the paranoid are sure of it. ;)

    Maybe they can, but as its not proportional to the offence such evidence would be inadmissible. :D
  • photome
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    Yet another new poster, posting for a "friend"
  • Paradigm
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    photome wrote: »
    Yet another new poster, posting for a "friend"


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  • Mr.Generous
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    I dread to think what insurance cost would be with 9 points anyway. pretty much would have got me off the road when I was younger. To use the phone while speeding when already on 6 pts you would have to be pretty stupid or young. When I was young I admit I had a "It'll never happen to me" attitude. Luckily mobile phones were the size of a brick and owned by very few people.
    Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.
  • EdGasket
    EdGasket Posts: 3,503 Forumite
    Its a wind-up. Another one-post wonder!
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