Comedian Jimmy Carr has successfully beaten his conviction of using his mobile phone while driving after employing Manchester based lawyer Nick Freeman, a.k.a Mister Loophole. The court heard that Carr was using his iPhone as a Dictaphone for a joke and as the phone was not in interactive mode it could not be classed as a phone.
The CPS High Court appeal was dropped yesterday as a result, however in other news figures from the Department for Transport show that drivers are still taking risks with their own lives and those of others.
Neil Greig, IAM Director of Policy and Research, said: “It is clear that, despite wide publicity on the risks, people are still choosing to ignore advice and use their phones in their cars.
“Along with consistent and high profile policing drivers need to be educated about how and why driving on the phone is so dangerous.
“Deaths and injuries linked to mobile phone use wreck lives and are completely avoidable. The majority of road users deserve to be protected from an irresponsible and selfish minority and enforcement is, in our view, the key weapon against them.”
