Ontario Premier Doug Ford is under fire for using cell phone video to talk with reporters while he was driving. It is illegal in the province to "view display screens unrelated to driving, such as watching a video." The on-the-road interview came Jan. 16, 2022, during a dangerous winter storm. Ford called in to television station CP24 while driving in the storm. The province's bulked-up penalties for electronic distracted driving are now in effect. Under the revised law, basic distracted driving offenses come with license suspensions of three days (first offense), seven days (second) and … [Read more...]
New Brunswick: Distracted driving news
June 27, 2011 by 4 Comments
New Brunswick RCMP said in early October 2014 that they'd written almost 600 distracted driving tickets so far in the year. That's roughly on pace with the number from 2013, which totaled 763. The fine for violating New Brunswick's distracted driving regulations is $172.50 plus three points against the driver's license. New Brunswick RCMP reported that in the first full year of the distracted driving law, they'd issued more than 672 tickets. "There are still New Brunswickers who continue to use handheld devices while driving, or who have gone back to their old habit of doing so," a New … [Read more...]
U.K. teen imprisoned for texting death
April 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A young driver who killed a grandmother while read a text message in southeast England, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail. Photographers captured images of Keisha Wall, 19, of Reading as she walked into court clutching her mobile phone. She denied text messaging and said her mother, a driving instructor, may have grabbed her wheel, causing the fatality. Christine Lyon, 63 (pictured), died in February 2010 when Wall's vehicle jumped the curb. Lyon was pinned up against a wall, where she was crushed and killed instantly. The court heard evidence that Wall received and read a text … [Read more...]
‘If Lives Are in Your Hands … ‘
March 16, 2011 by 1 Comment
What if your surgeon decided to do a little text messaging while you're there on the operating table? That's the (rhetorical) question posed by short-filmmaker David McDonald, recently honored for the safety PSA video below. McDonald, 24, won $7,800 (CAN) worth of filmmaking tools in the distracted driving category of a short-film contest sponsored by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. "I looked at texting and driving and what that really is -- it is a dangerous thing operating a heavy vehicle that could kill," McDonald told the Westminster News Leader on March 16. … [Read more...]
British Columbia: Distracted driving news
January 24, 2011 by 10 Comments
A Prince George woman has won her appeal of her distracted driving conviction for using a two-way radio. The British Columbia Supreme Court sided with Tania Lousia Shelford, who protested that her radio was attached to her van. A lower court had rejected the appeal saying the microphone she used was not fixed to the van, but justices found it was. "The hand unit is just the microphone for the user and the receiver is the mounted radio unit to which (the microphone) is connected," the high court found in late May 2021. In Victoria, a 24-year-old driver who stuck and injured a young … [Read more...]
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