{"id":20973,"date":"2017-03-01T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20973"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:22:15","slug":"using-a-mobile-phone-when-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20973","title":{"rendered":"Using a Mobile Phone When Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/351;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Driver using mobile phone\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mob_driving.jpg\" alt=\"Driver using mobile phone\" width=\"524\" height=\"351\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>From today (1 March 2017) the <a title=\"Drivers: Changes to penalties for handheld mobile phone use\" href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/UKDVSA\/bulletins\/18962ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penalties for using a mobile phone when driving<\/a> have increased.<\/p>\n<p>If you get caught now, it\u2019s 6 points on your licence and a \u00a3200 fine. New drivers \u2013 those who passed their tests less than 2 years ago \u2013 should bear in mind that the points will put them at the limit provided during the probationary period. In theory \u2013 and, hopefully, in reality &#8211; that means you\u2019re banned.<\/p>\n<p>DVSA\u2019s photo used in the news release carries the words \u201cmake the glove compartment the phone compartment\u201d. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen \u2013 the typical 17-year old can only put their phone in one of two places: in their hand, or between their legs. Well over half of my new pupils try that at first, and I know for a fact that however much I emphasise the dangers and penalties, when they pass they\u2019re going to do it. I also know that they will use their phone while they\u2019re driving \u2013 it is a condition of 17-year olds today.<\/p>\n<p>I fully agree with higher penalties. The only form of education which stands any chance of working is one which carries a significant punishment with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today (1 March 2017) the penalties for using a mobile phone when driving have increased. If you get caught now, it\u2019s 6 points on your licence and a \u00a3200 fine. New drivers \u2013 those who passed their tests less than 2 years ago \u2013 should bear in mind that the points will put them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,84,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-drivers","category-dvsa-related","category-news","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}