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Less motorists now being fined for being on the phone!
on May 6th, 2010 at 10:29 pmFewer drivers are being punished for using hand-held mobile phones at the wheel despite the scale of the problem increasing, it has emerged. The number of fixed-penalty notices issued by the police for the offence fell by 5% to 116,000 in 2008, from 122,000, according to Home Office figures. The figure previously stood at 167,000. The proportion of drivers using hand-held mobiles had increased compared with a year before, from 1.1% to 1.4% for car drivers, and from 2.2% to 2.6% for van and lorry drivers, according to a survey carried out for the Department for Transport last October. More
