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Anyone know why they won't pursue?
They're understaffed, undertrained, underfunded, lazy, shit, ineffective, racist, bigotted?
Pick a few.
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003
Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986- The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) are amended by inserting after regulation 109—
“Mobile telephones
110.—(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a road if he is using—
(a)a hand-held mobile telephone; or
(b)a hand-held device of a kind specified in paragraph (4).
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(4) A device referred to in paragraphs (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3)(b) is a device, other than a two-way radio, which performs an interactive communication function by transmitting and receiving data.
Arguably, any mobile phone is constantly sending data back & forth, but plod doesn't understand this.
Every flappy bird game is interactively sending & receiving stuff.
- The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) are amended by inserting after regulation 109—
NotThamesWater
Reported a taxi for clearly using/having a mobile phone in the lap, MET comes back and says prosecution unlikely - I ask why and am told it's required to prove use as a communication device.
The current gov.uk website says it's illegal to hold a mobile phone while driving, nothing about communication devices - https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law
Anyone know why they won't pursue?