Last week while driving through New Liskeard I went by a city pickup truck with two employees and the driver was talking on a cell phone. The cell phone ban has been law for about 3 months and the city workers can’t comply?
If he was to get a ticket, who will pay the bill, I wonder. Not that he would get a ticket, since there isn’t much law enforcement going on around here anyway, and they’d likely let this one go, or not even stop him.
Having a passenger in the truck made me wonder if that person was concerned for their own safety, since it’s something like 4 times more likely for a distracted driver to be in an accident. Was this person concerned enough to report this incident to their employer?
This brings to mind another employee I saw last summer smoking in a city vehicle, which has been against the law for years.
If a city employee were ticketed for using a mobile phone while operating a vehicle (a city vehicle, while on duty), he or she would have to pay or appeal the ticket themselves. It doesn’t matter if they’re driving a city vehicle. A driver’s responsibilities fall on the driver, not the owner of the vehicle.
If you borrowed you’re neighbour’s car and were ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt, would your neighbour then have to pay your fine?
You are comparing apples to oranges.
If I borrow my neighbour’s car and get a seatbelt fine, yes, I should be responsible for the fine, not the owner.
If one of my employee’s is driving illegal, be it driver distraction, alcohol, speeding, then it is my concern as you are putting my equipment at risk and also exposing my company to great liability, since you are on company time and property. Should that employee get in an accident, do you think there is a lawyer around that wouldn’t sue both the driver and the company?
You like to complain about Politics, but you are an obvious Statist. Your solution to Government corruption is ‘bigger government’.
How about common sense. If there is a second person in the truck, just let that person do the phone call if you don’t have hands free (which is as easy as buying an earphone for your cell).
tickets, tickets, taxes, government control and provide everything. you know how inefficient that is. a bit of agreements and organization amongst people can benefit everyone. but when every single facet of life is managed and control, everything is liable and has a dollar value, everything is owned, and there are all these laws.. it just gets in the way of people doing what needs to be done. and makes the process of doing things, and the incresaed punishment for accident, really interfer in the lives and well-being of the people.
I am not for more government.
There was a second person in the truck… you tell me why he wasn’t taking the phone call instead of the driver.
We need enforcement as compliance is utterly low. This was proven lately by the accident in Temagami where the students weren’t wearing seatbelts and cost one of them their lives. The seatbelt laws have been in place over 30 years.
Yeah, but why should someone be punished for not wearing a seatbelt?
Isn’t death when you crash the punishment? Why do we have to add more punishment to people’s lives? Now, even the people that don’t crash, still get punished economically. And why is the punishment based on money? So if someone has lots of money, they can afford to speed?
Tom Arnold, are you for real?
The punishment is not only financial, but you get demerit points, so NO, you can’t just pay ticket after ticket after ticket – at some point, you lose your license. Period.
Why should people be forced to wear a seat belt? Well, think about insurance, other drivers, and so on. For example, if I were in an accident and there was a death – their “punishment” as you call it – I am sure would feel guilty of that loss of life for the rest of my life, even if I didn’t cause the accident.
I say this as someone who has been ticketed for both speeding and not wearing a seatbelt, and I figured these lessons out on my own when having to write my checks and reflecting on why it actually matters. Be considerate of other people.