Fixed Speed Camera - Speeding and mobile phone use?

Silver-Surfer_2

Car_54 wrote: »

Three, if you count careless or dangerous driving ....

Then if using the phone when speeding is careless or dangerous it's only one offence.

Iceweasel

Car_54 wrote: »

Only if they knew the phone number.

If the Polizei were sufficiently bothered, I think that would only take a minute or two.

Silver-Surfer_2

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

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

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

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.

photome

Yet another new poster, posting for a "friend"

Paradigm

photome wrote: »

Yet another new poster, posting for a "friend"

Are you surprised?

Mr.Generous

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.

EdGasket

Its a wind-up. Another one-post wonder!