After a year of watching and waiting, Canberra’s mobile phone detection cameras are about to strike.
Drivers snapped with a phone on their lap or in their hands by the overhead-mounted cameras will be issued an infringement and demerit points from Tuesday next week (20 February).
There was a case in Queensland early on where the driver claimed it was an iPod touch.
It ended up being the case that it was actually an iPhone, but the judge found that the driver was honest in his claims that it was only being used as an iPod (because it did not have a SIM card at the time). The law was quickly amended to fix this loophole.