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New Mobile Phone laws

  • 05-05-2014 7:27pm
    #1
    PaiseanFaisean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Quick question: Can you be caught for using a mobile (one hand on phone near your lap) by a garda car on an overhead bridge on the motorway? Is there any way they can take an image or whatever? If Phone was not at the ear just below the steering wheel and it was raining

    It's just a general question really .... Not guilty myself
    Thanks


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  • #2
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    If you get a summons for it though, it would be well dodgy trying to argue it

    If they wanted to make an example of you for the shiny new law
    they could pull your phone bill / records and a bit of traffic camera cctv

    then you'd be up for perjury or something - 7 years transportation/ hard labour for that

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79697192&postcount=8


  • #3
    PaiseanFaisean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭PaiseanFaisean


    So they can catch you that way?


  • #4
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA3JyYOdg3w



    There at about 3 minutes into that

    - the scooter/camera setups have collected €160,000,000 on 12 months in one city

    they could just be doing dry runs at the moment .....

    .


  • #5
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,402 ✭✭✭highdef


    You (or your friend) could buy a phone cradle.....for future use so that there would be no chance of being caught.


  • #6
    PaiseanFaisean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭PaiseanFaisean


    Have these super cameras been brought into Ireland yet?


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  • #7
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    PaiseanFaisean wrote: »
    Have these super cameras been brought into Ireland yet?

    With phone cradles around a tenner in garages why have people not invested yet?


  • #8
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    PaiseanFaisean wrote: »
    Quick question: Can you be caught for using a mobile (one hand on phone near your lap) by a garda car on an overhead bridge on the motorway?
    Phone doesn't need to be in use. As far as I know, it doesn't even need to be powered on. The offense is to hold or cradle a mobile phone with any part of your body, which you were doing.

    A guard will not be asked to produce a picture of this happening in court. If he states that he saw you with a phone, that will satisfy the court and unless you have a rear-facing dashcam or some way of proving him wrong, the court will accept that.


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