Changes to using your mobile phone while driving: How the law is changing from Friday

Motorists are being reminded the law around using your mobile phone while driving is changing.
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It is already illegal to use a hand-held device to make phone calls and send messages, except in an emergency.

But from Friday (March 25) “using” a hand-held device will be expanded to cover:

* Illuminating the screen

* Checking the time

* Checking notifications

* Unlocking the device

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* Making, receiving or rejecting a telephone or internet-based call

Motorists are being reminded the law around using your mobile phone while driving is changing.Motorists are being reminded the law around using your mobile phone while driving is changing.
Motorists are being reminded the law around using your mobile phone while driving is changing.

* Sending, receiving or uploading oral or written content

* Sending , receiving or uploading a photo or video

* Utilising camera, video or sound recording

* Drafting any text

* Accessing any stored data such as documents, books, audio files, photos, videos, films, playlists, notes or messages

* Accessing an app

* Accessing the internet

There is an exemption which allows drivers to use a mobile to make a contactless payment while the vehicle is stationary at places such as drive-through restaurants and car parks. Using a mobile phone for navigation will continue to be legal, as long as it is kept in a cradle and not in the driver’s hand.

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Sergeant Johnson from West Yorkshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit explains why these changes have been introduced and the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving in the You Tube video.

More information is available from the UKI Parliament website HERE .

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