MORE than 400 motorists across Cambridgeshire were caught using a mobile while driving during an enforcement campaign.
Throughout July traffic officers targeted mobile phone offences as part of the ‘Think’ road safety campaign.
A total of 448 drivers were fined including a 21-year-old man from Suffolk was charged with driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence, no insurance, driving whilst using a mobile phone and failing to stop.
He appeared at Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court on July 15 and received six points on his licence, leading to 12 months disqualification and a fine of £200 for exceeding 12 points.
During the campaign, one vehicle was also seized for having no insurance.
Inspector Mark Rogers said: “Driving while using a phone is part of the ‘fatal four’ driving offences, along with speeding, not wearing a seatbelt and drink or drug driving.
“If you are using a phone while driving, your reaction times are 50 per cent slower and you are four times more likely to have a collision.
“It is disappointing people are still not taking notice of the advice we are giving and we will continue to enforce the law to ensure our county’s roads are safer.”
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