What this article is failing to mention is these new sentencing guidelines apply to people who have caused an accident through their careless driving.
I drive a commercial vehicle for work and while it would be a lie to say I’ve never been distracted behind the wheel (everyone is to varying degrees) but I see potentially serious accidents almost occur daily. From people cutting blind corners, driving in the middle of the road, phone in front of their face, phone glued to their ear, not looking or indicating at junctions and roundabouts.
Theres an epidemic of bad driving and we need more of this sort of low level punishment to make people think before they take that call or queue up a new song on Spotify.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I saw one of my coworkers looking just like this while pulling out of work today.