There are some posters here who will make a distinction between talking on a hand-held device and texting on said device when the law does not care which it is, as it is still distracted driving, and illegal in most jurisdiction. Locally here it carries a fine of up to $1000 and 3 demerit points for first offense, and escalates for subsequent offenses. The same posters will ignore stats which show a distracted driver is four times more likely to get into a crash than a non-distracted to make a nonsensical point. Such posters could be likened to the donkey in the fable of the Tiger and the Donkey.
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In Ontario, to receive a speeding ticket of $1000, you'd have have been going 100 km/h over the posted speed limit! That's how serious the laws views distracted driving.
Last edited by mcours2006; 10-05-23 at 04:09 PM.