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No excuses!
As a police officer you see a lot of interesting things on the road and one we see all too often is mobile phone offences.
There is a common misconception that holding your mobile phone on loudspeaker or having ear phones in is acceptable.
The term “use” encompasses, holding the phone to or near the ear, whether engaged in a phone call or not, to using any function of the phone.
Functions of the phone range from turning it on and off, using GPS, checking the time and even YouTube!
There are further restrictions for young provisional drivers, where you cannot use your mobile phones hands free function or loudspeaker function, even for music. Studies suggest that using your mobile phone is as dangerous as drink driving.
So, when was the last time you used your mobile phone? Did you see the pedestrian that you narrowly avoided colliding with? Or do you remember seeing

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Seatbelts are an important safety feature of any vehicle and compulsory to wear, yet there are a small few who choose not to wear it.
Some people continue to wear the lap/sash style seat belt under the right arm. The sash component of your seat belt cannot perform as its intended and it will not support your upper body in the event of a crash.
A driver also risks being fined if your passenger, regardless of age, isn’t wearing a seat belt or not wearing it correctly. Lap/sash style seatbelts need to be worn in the manner that they were designed for, so it will support the lower and upper body in the event of a crash and air bag deployments.
Talking about children and where they can sit, there are also various differences between vehicles with one row of seats and two.
Cars with only one row of seats can accommodate any child,

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Senior Sergeant Marty Bray has been an officer with the Queensland Police Service for 35 years. He has been a Traffic Cop for an amazing 29 of those years. I recently asked him why.
As a young Constable stationed in Cloncurry during the 1980’s I witnessed the aftermath of a collision between a semi trailer and station wagon. The carnage was terrible but nothing compared to the human cost . A woman and child had died in the wreckage that night and a truck driver was traumatised for life.
 An investigation into the accident showed that the truck driver was not at fault and that the car driver was drunk, so not only did she kill herself and her granddaughter but rip apart both her family and the truck drivers family.
 I saw there the scourge of drink driving and it’s cost on families , this spurred me into a career in traffic enforcement.  I

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