Hand held mobile phone use penalty to rise in 2017 [Merged]

ROG:

bald:
what about passengers in the car ?

Passengers have some idea of what is going on around the vehicle - the person on the end of the phone does not

I doubt if 2 people in a vehicle are engrossed in a conversation to the same level as some who use phone are, that either would react to something happening outside the vehicle until it was too late.

How many collisions are there that don’t involve phone use, where the cause is they didn’t see in time to react?