Checking Your Text Messages While At The Lights?

A brief reminder of what you can and cannot do:

• The use of mobile phones for any purpose while driving is an offence unless the phone can be used without holding or manipulating it;
  
  

• The only exception to this is that drivers may use a mobile phone while driving to call 111 or *555 when it is unsafe or impractial t stop and park to make the call;
  
  

• This prohibition extends to any use of the mobile phone including call, texts, e-mails, taking pictures or videos or any other use;
  
  

• Driving, for this law, includes being stopped in a stream of traffic or at traffic lights;
  
  

• Drivers may use a handheld mobile phone for any purpose if they first pull of the road and stop their vehicle.
  
  
  This article has been prepared by Cavel Leitch Law for general information only and important exceptions and other relevant factors may not have been included.  If understanding the legal area covered by this article as it affects your specific circumstances is important to you then please contact us for a proper legal opinion.