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Ontario Government looking to enforce stiffer distracted driving laws

October 26, 2013 06:56 PM

Ontario: The Ontario Government banned the utilization of a handheld units while driving back in April of 2009. Assuming that you're discovered talking, messaging, messaging, surfing the web, or indeed, holding your apparatus while driving you could confront a $155 fine. The Ministry of Transportation states that over 235,000 tickets have been issued since the law went into spot, however these numbers are supposedly bad enough.

 

Transportation Minister Glen Murray says, "We now live in the realm of Blackberry and iphones and its an alternate actuality, and the results of utilizing those are comparable to what we've had with drinking and driving. So now is the ideal time to truly take a gander at what are the sort of punishments that will work."

 

The Government is in right on time talks and acknowledging executing stiffer punishments that will see those ignoring the law appropriating extra harms on top of a straightforward fine. Some unanticipated discussion are that occupied drivers to have negative mark focuses deducted, or conceivably a licence suspension. Evidently, if passed, these progressions could happen “winthin months.”

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