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The warnings are over: mobile phone cameras set to start biting motorists | Riotact (the-riotact.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After a year of watching and waiting, Canberra’s mobile phone detection cameras are about to strike.

Drivers snapped with a phone on their lap or in their hands by the overhead-mounted cameras will be issued an infringement and demerit points from Tuesday next week (20 February).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nobody who crashes their car after using their phone is thinking "well, at least I got that super important message off". And that's for best-case situations where nobody is hurt.

Whatever the message is, it can wait. If it really can't wait, then people really do need to get off the road to read/reply.