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

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

Most are caused by a driver not concentrating on the task of driving but allowing themselves to be distracted

Exactly but they single out phones as a special case, but there are plenty of others things that distract drivers that aren’t singles out. When the law on mobile phones was first talked about a traffic copper friend of mine said it was pointless as they already had laws that could deal with people who used phones and making it a special case detracted from the other causes that distracted people.