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26,000 drivers penalised for using mobile phones

Patrick McDonnell
12 March 2018
The THINK! road safety campaign highlighted mobile phone misuse last year
The THINK! road safety campaign highlighted mobile phone misuse last year

 

The Department for Transport (DfT) has said that since the introduction of harsher penalties for motorists’ caught using a mobile phone last year has seen more than 26,000 caught offending.

Among these were 500 novice drivers who had their licenses revoked for using their mobile phone behind the wheel in their first 2 years of driving.

On 1 March 2017, the penalties for this offence doubled from £100 and 3 penalty points to £200 and 6 points. A further 1,997 motorists were...

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