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(DFT) Think! Switch Off Before You Drive Off
01 February 2008
A new THINK! campaign to highlight the dangers of using a mobile phone when driving was launched today by Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick. The £1.5m campaign, featuring a new radio advert as well as the hard-hitting television advert launched last year, will remind drivers to switch off before getting behind the wheel. It is timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the introduction of tougher penalties for using a mobile phone when driving.
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ISILON MSS Discovery Kawasaki Launch New Text Service!
25 May 2007
The ISILON MSS Discovery Kawasaki team is launching a new text information service so all the team’s fans can get up-to-the-second information and news from their favourite team. In addition, as the season goes on the team will – in conjunction with team sponsors and partners – be introducing a number of exciting ‘TEXT TO WIN’ competitions where fans of the team can win anything from a pillion ride with Michael or Stuart, to signed kit, team clothing or VIP tickets to a Bennetts British Superbike meeting with the team!
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Seven Days Until Tough New Phone Penalties Are Introduced
22 February 2007
Motorists caught using a hand held mobile phone while driving face strict new penalties from 27th February. The fixed penalty for drivers, introduced in December 2003, will increase from £30 to £60 and for the first time will include the award of thee penalty points. Minister Stephen Ladyman emphasised the importance of not being distracted while driving, saying most drivers agree accidents are more likely when their attention is diverted from the road ahead.
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Tough New Penalties For Motorists On Mobiles Welcomed By London Cyclist
21 February 2007
Motorists face tough new penalties from 27 February if they break the law by using a hand-held mobile phone while driving. From that date, the fixed penalty will for the first time include the award of three penalty points as well as doubling the fine to £60. One 35-year-old Londoner to welcome the enhanced penalty for drivers using phones behind the wheel is cyclist Ben Davies, who finds himself regularly in danger while on his bike from motorists on mobiles not paying attention to the road.
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Texting Driver Jailed For Two Years
14 February 2007
A man from Pontypool in South Wales has been jailed for two years after killing another driver in a head-on crash as he received a text message from his step-daughter.
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Few' Mobile Phone Drivers Caught Driver Using Mobile Phone
14 December 2006
It is thought that 6.7m people could be driving whilst on the phone. Only 1.1% of the drivers who admit to using a mobile phone behind the wheel are getting caught, the Liberal Democrats have suggested. Figures released by the Home Office show that 74,000 drivers were caught and fined in 2004 in England and Wales.
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Mobiles 'quadruple crash danger'
13 July 2005
Drivers are four times more likely to crash when using mobile phones, even if they use hands-free kits, experts say.
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