Mobile phone at the wheel: punishment & double points (Update!) Tougher punishment for mobile phone at the wheel

The cell phone ban at the wheel is tightened. 22. September has matched the Federal Council on the draft law. The harsher penalties include, in the future, in certain cases, two instead of a point and higher fines.

The Federal Council has on 22. September harsher penalties for the use of mobile phones at the wheel decided. Experts have long been warning of the growing risks of an Accident by constantly lock digital companion. Now the policy has tightened the rules to provide an even more deterrent effect. So instead of the previous 60 Euro 100 Euro fine will be due and payable, continue to be associated with a point in the Flensburg traffic offenders file. In the worst case, damage to 200 Euro fine plus two points and a month of driving threaten in the future, even prohibition. This should be a lesson and inhibitions will increase. Also for bike driver with cell phone in Hand in the future it will be more expensive: € 55 instead of € 25 when you Catch them in the act due. But the Reckless on the Handlebars to reason? That mobile phone while Driving may be for years not held in the Hand, is clearly not taken seriously. "The phone belong to the end of motor vehicle drivers with the cell phone on the ear, and the short messages typing at the end of the driver with the mobile phone in the Hand, regrettably, the daily traffic", is the disillusionment balance sheet of the Federal Ministry of transport. The violations happened, therefore, always intentional, and many of the come is not wrong. A seconds glance at the Smartphone at a pace of 50 is 14 meters flying blind, as the German road safety Council (DVR) warns. For new rules it is, therefore, high time.

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