joe384
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Mobile phone loophole for filming drivers 'to be closed'
A legal loophole has allowed drivers who use mobiles to film or take photos to escape punishment.
www.bbc.co.uk
I don't know why the guy who sucessfully appealed didn't get charged with careless or inconsiderate driving though?
Or maybe they should have charged him under the 1986 Construction and Road Vechicles Use Act:
"109.—(1) No person shall drive, or cause or permit to be driven, a motor vehicle on a road, if the driver is in such a position as to be able to see, whether directly or by reflection, a television receiving apparatus or other cinematographic apparatus used to display anything other than information—
(a) about the state of the vehicle or its equipment;
(b) about the location of the vehicle and the road on which it is located;
(c) to assist the driver to see the road adjacent to the vehicle; or
(d) to assist the driver to reach his destination.
(2) In this regulation “television receiving apparatus” means any cathode ray tube carried on a vehicle and on which there can be displayed an image derived from a television broadcast, a recording or a camera or computer."