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).
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.