BETTER PARTS75,000 in fines for call and appen behind steering wheel
The Central Judicial collection agency cashed in 2017 nearly 75,000 fines for appen and calling behind the wheel. In total 17 million euros in fines. It comes to an increase of a quarter compared with 2016. Also in 2015, the number of fines for calling and appen in the car a lot.
The police said in 2017, on average, two hundred fines per day. A spokesman from the NATIONAL confirms that all of these fines that are handed out by agents after they motorists standing had taken because of the violation.
There is, however, considered whether, in the future, offenders also per speed camera bellend or append can be registered
Most of the fines were handed out in the South of Holland: over 18,000 offenders were a picture in the bus. They were good for an amount of 4 million euro.
The least fines for appen, and bubbles were handed out in the province of Flevoland and Drenthe.
Attorney general john Fred Grapperhaus launched recently a plan from 1 July 2019 an overall telefoonverbod for all road users. This would go to both drivers and cyclists.
The politiebonden, however, have indicated that there is already not enough agents to do all the extra tasks to perform, The Hague the National Police in recent years has imposed.