Thread: Mobile phone delete in vehicles

police officers are allowed to use mobiles while driving.
what kind of example is that setting?

Originally Posted by Eevo

police officers are allowed to use mobiles while driving.
what kind of example is that setting?

They speed past me often as well,way above the speed limit,sometimes with no bells and whistles flashing

Originally Posted by Eevo

police officers are allowed to use mobiles while driving.
what kind of example is that setting?

Any emergency services personnel. They have training.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Any emergency services personnel. They have training.

as a CFS firefighter i didnt receive any "be on the phone and drive at the same time" training.


if they have had training, can they talk on the phone when not on shift?

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Agree, and 1% is a very small statistic, but when the national road toll is now around 1,000 making more improvements means greater impositions. All the easy fixes seem to have been made already.

Perhaps, all vehicles need to be fitted with drug/alcohol immobiliser devices, before mobile phone defeat devices. I do however wonder why we have BAC legislation and not Blood Drug Concentration legislation?

What about proper driver training? I wouldnt see that as an imposition. Just expensive to implement from which positive effects would not be seen for a number of years.

Though when better drivers start filtering through onto our roads it will be well worth it

They have sex ed and drugs ed in high schools, but no drivers education.

I may be sharing too much but there's only one of those things that i do almost every day

Cheers

Dan

Originally Posted by Eevo

as a CFS firefighter i didnt receive any "be on the phone and drive at the same time" training.


if they have had training, can they talk on the phone when not on shift?

Road Rule 300

Use of mobile phones
(1) The driver of a vehicle must not use a mobile phone while the vehicle is moving, or is stationary but not parked, unless:
(a) the phone is being used to make or receive a phone call (other than a text message, video message, email or similar communication) and the body of the phone:
(i) is secured in a mounting affixed to the vehicle while being so used; or
(ii) is not secured in a mounting affixed to the vehicle and is not being held by the driver, and the use of the phone does not require the driver, at any time while using it, to press any thing on the body of the phone or to otherwise manipulate any part of the body of the phone; or
(b) the vehicle is an emergency vehicle or a police vehicle;
or
(c) the driver is exempt from this rule under another law of this jurisdiction.
Offence provision.
Note Emergency vehicle, park and police vehicle are defined in the dictionary.
(2) For the purposes of this rule, a mobile phone is secured in a mounting affixed to the vehicle if, and only if?
(a) the mounting is commercially manufactured for that purpose; and designed
and
(b) the mobile phone is secured in the mounting, and the mounting is affixed to the vehicle, in the manner intended by the manufacturer.
(3) For the purposes of this rule, a driver does not use a phone to receive a text message, video message, email or similar communication if:
(a) the communication is received automatically by the phone;
and
(b) on and after receipt, the communication itself (rather than any indication that the communication has been received) does not become automatically visible on the screen of the phone.
(4) In this rule:
affixed to, in relation to a vehicle, includes forming part of the vehicle;
body, in relation to a mobile
phone, means the part of the phone that contains the majority of the phone's mechanisms;
held includes held by, or resting on, any part of the driver's body, but does not include held in a pocket of the driver's clothing or in a pouch worn by the driver;
mobile phone does not include a CB radio or any other two-way radio;
use, in relation to a mobile phone, includes any of the following actions by a driver:
(a) holding the body of the phone in her or his hand (whether or not engaged in a phone call), except while in the process of giving the body of the phone to a passenger in the vehicle;
(b) entering or placing, other than by the use of voice, anything into the phone, or sending or looking at anything that is in the phone;
(c) turning the phone on or off;
(d) operating any other function of the phone.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Road Rule 300

what your point mick?
i never said it wasnt a rule.

i said it sets a bad standard cause its hypocritical.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Any emergency services personnel. They have training.

What training??