If you're a driver in Alberta, today would be a good day to practice hanging up your cell phone while you drive. Thursday, September 1, 2011, Alberta's new Distracted Driving Law comes into effect.
If you talk on a hand-held cell, text, email, use a laptop, video game, camera, MP3 player, program a GPS, read printed material, write, groom yourself whether you're moving in traffic or stopped at a stop light, or if you eat your lunch with two hands, you will face a fine of $172 for each offense.
You can argue with the police officer but the ticket is based on whether the officer thinks you were distracted while driving. Good luck fighting Police Judgment in court. The ticket is more ambiguous than a speeding ticket so if you think you were driving well and the police officer doesn't, you lose.
This new Law is billed as the toughest in all of Canada. I hope the Police give it some teeth.
It's time to put down your playthings in your car and concentrate on driving. Too bad it had to come to becoming a Law - but maybe it's better this way.
Now hang up and drive.
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