Drivers using mobile phones at the wheel are regularly escaping punishment, with police now imposing a fraction of the number of fines given five years ago. “The figures lay bare the scale of the handheld mobile phone epidemic that has been allowed to sweep across the country largely unchallenged. In February 2006 his wife, Zoë, 42, was killed by a driver who was texting on a mobile phone. We all feel very deeply about dangerous driving, but the use of mobile phones in particular. You can’t even buy most mobile phones for that.”

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2016 18:44 UTC