Not long ago, the news on Channel 7 in Australia read:
7 News: driving to see the phone will likely face a greater penalty!
Go down two lines and you'll see a message like this:
At present, the fine will be 400 Australian dollars, and a deduction of 3 points. A tougher measure is about to be introduced: a fine of 3000 Australian dollars and a deduction of six points!
Previously, if caught, driving a mobile phone would face a fine of more than $400 and a 3-point penalty. But now this policy may be subverted!
Australia's government has imposed a hefty fine and a tougher penalty will be introduced to punish people who drive on their mobile phones.
The first time to play with a mobile phone was found, a fine of $3000! Six points off!
Seeing it say "first discovery," many friends must be curious what would happen if they were discovered the second time.
With this question, I went down two lines.
If you are unrepentant and stick to your mobile phone, your persistence will lead to a $6000 fine and a 12-month revocation of your driver's license!
This is the heaviest fine in Australian transport history!
The key is to revoke the driver's license for 12 months!
Of course, the Ministry of Transport will not always fine, after all, the means of punishment is too single, the efficiency of enforcement will be reduced …
So, if you do not change, again and again, and look at the mobile phone, the driver will face imprisonment.
After the penalty money, then go to jail oh, first pay, then go to prison, pay the money in the morning, afternoon imprisonment, and also a year not to drive oh.
Just recently, the Australian Road Authority, the Department of Justice and the police jointly launched a world-class pioneering technology, which is a red-light-like camera, can be photographed drivers playing mobile phones and other illegal driving, as evidence of punishment!
Australia's government took advantage of this cool techs to test the equipment on some sections of the road, and the results were astonishing!
In one of the test sites, the camera captured images of more than 270 drivers using mobile phones during five hours of testing.
In another test, the camera captured more than 1000 car owners using mobile phones in nine hours, equivalent to one every 30 seconds!
Fortunately, it's just a test, or you and I might be one of these people.
Imagine that after the official deployment of the government camera in Australia, if caught by this camera, one day soon, you will draw a $3000 ticket in your mailbox!
It's more exciting than winning!
Of course, Australia's government attempts to issue such a law is not empty, after all, driving a mobile phone behavior is illegal in itself, and in Australia caused a certain traffic accident, most importantly, these people have not changed!
Australia's government has long since enacted penalties for using mobile phones by car:
If you are caught playing with your mobile phone, you will be fined A $433, or 4 points.
But inexplicably, the enactment of the bill does not seem to have worked to stop the use of mobile phones by car.
Statistics show that 13% of all road deaths in Australia are due to distraction caused by the use of mobile phones while driving.
That's up 5% from five years ago.
In the new state, drivers use mobile phones as a major cause of fatal car crashes, more serious than accidents caused by not wearing seat belts.
In the previous fiscal year, New South Wales police fined 39000 people for using mobile phones while driving, an increase of 2000 from the previous year.
Driver distraction accounts for at least 10% of fatal accidents and 18% for serious injuries. Such a number is really shocking, which means that around you and I, there are a lot of such roads killer …
When driving and playing with mobile phones, accidents occur frequently.
Audrey Dow is an 81-year-old woman, she is usually amiable, especially warm to people, in life, she does charity, do public welfare, is full of enthusiasm for the sunshine old man.
But when she was burning the afterglow of her life, she was extinguished by a traffic accident.
That day, she was driving her car along the road to visit her daughter's home in Kunzhou. But unfortunately, it happened on the road.
Just as she was safely driving the car, a car rushed out of the driveway, and 81-year-old Audrey, who had no time to dodge, collided with the uninvited visitor face-to-face.
Although she was rushed to the hospital in time, later in the day, she was unlucky to leave the world.
However, the driver who did not look at the road was unable to control the steering wheel because he used his mobile phone to read text messages while driving, causing the tragedy.
Joanne Leigh Lawrence, 42, can be said to be an old driver. In her normal life, she commutes to and from work by driving, she often drives her children around, and there are few bumps on weekdays. Driving skills can be said to be excellent.
However, she may spend the next few years in prison, the culprit is her cell phone.
On this day, she got a text message from her family while driving and she was having a brief argument with her family about something.
Excited and eager to explain to her family, she chose to send and receive text messages in the car … She thought, a few minutes away, see the mobile phone will not cause accidents, who knows, unfortunate early in front of the waiting …
Just when she edited the text message, suddenly felt the body tremble, the sound of scraping came out from the bottom of the car, she instantly realized something was wrong, she may have hit something!
She hurriedly got out of the car, but was frightened by the scene in front of her, she was paralyzed to the ground.
A rider was drawn to the wheel by her, his bike scattered under the car, under the chassis of the car, already stained red with blood …
Joanne was sentenced to three years in prison and 18 months to be released on parole, paying a painful price for dangerous driving while she was driving.
Don't take luck as safety. According to the < Herald Sun > report, some studies have shown that the use of mobile phones while driving increases the risk of car drivers' accidents by 15 times! Truck driver collision risk has increased 20 times!
In previous studies, it was concluded that using a mobile phone while driving did not affect routine driving behavior.
However, it has an effect on judging the distance between vehicles, which is more dangerous than the driving behavior when dialing the telephone in the process of vehicle driving and the influence on the understanding and judging ability of traffic condition in the course of vehicle driving is much more dangerous than that in the driving behavior when dialing the telephone.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has done a detailed investigation on car drivers who use mobile phones in order to find out the influence of drivers' understanding and judgment ability on the condition outside of the car in order to find out how to understand and judge the out-of-car situation of motorists who use mobile phones.
The experimental results show that drivers who use mobile phones when driving are difficult to react to unexpected situations, and their reflection arcs are obviously longer, even can not avoid accidents at all!
We can say that using a mobile phone while driving is tantamount to giving up the opportunity to avoid emergencies around the world. Given the possible negative effects of mobile phone use on traffic safety, many countries around the world are now taking precautions against it. Drivers have been banned from using mobile phones while driving.
Australia, on the other hand, is particularly severely punished in this respect!
This is also a performance in charge of, maintain legal rights. Hope that in the future, everyone on the road will not play with mobile phones ah.