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  • #32
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    kbannon wrote: »
    Why? Legally, they don't need it when they are driving.

    You might if you needed to call in an emergency, turning phone on, entering pin etc wouldnt be all that easy to do if a bunch of guys wearing balaclavas were racing after you in a Ford Transit van wielding baseball bats.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/motoring_1/driving_offences/driving_offences.html

    It will be a defence for anyone charged with the offence of holding a mobile phone while driving to show that they were:

    * Using it to call the Gardaí, an ambulance, fire brigade or other emergency service
    * Involved in or acting in response to a genuine emergency


  • #33
    Topper Harley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    keithclancy wrote: »
    You might if you needed to call in an emergency, turning phone on, entering pin etc wouldnt be all that easy to do if a bunch of guys wearing balaclavas were racing after you in a Ford Transit van wielding baseball bats.

    I hate when that happens but luckily I'm usually a bit faster than the transit and the baseball bats are useless from more than three feet away.:D


  • #34
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    they should use real footage like on ROAD WARS last night with one girl lying in a crumpled bloody heap in the road and the other half out of the tailgate screaming and the asshole driving getting 5 years prison which is just as well as the girls Dad was after his blood big time.


  • #35
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    keithclancy wrote: »
    You might if you needed to call in an emergency, turning phone on, entering pin etc wouldnt be all that easy to do if a bunch of guys wearing balaclavas were racing after you in a Ford Transit van wielding baseball bats.
    I'd love to know the likleihood of that happening. Maybe we should forget about changing attitudes in case someone encounters a dickhead in a van, sure would there even be that many lives saved (considering the societal change towards drink driving)?
    And even Peig could easily outrun a Ford Transit.


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