With the recent rise in fixed penalty fines to £100, road safety charity Brake is calling for these to be enhanced to as much as £1,000.
The organisation claims that while the most recent rise in fines is a step in the best direction, that it still doesn’t offer a great enough deterrent against careless driving.
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Instead it feels that chauffeur caught using a mobile phone behind the wheel or speeding ought to face a fine of between £500 and £1,000.
It feels that this kind of fine would reflect the potentially deadly consequences of bad driving and encourage chauffeurs to take much more responsibility when on the road.
The increase in April was the first time that the fines had gone up because 2000. and Brake says that this has made them much lower than penalties for numerous other major offences.
The new fines were also coincided with a number of new powers for traffic police to pull over chauffeurs that use the wrong lane at a roundabout or that do not give way at a T-junction.
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