Mobile phones ‘plague on society’ says judge, as crash driver is jailed

Fleets are being warned that there is “no safe-time” to use a mobile phone, hand-held or otherwise, while driving.
The warning comes as the courts are convicting drivers shown to have used a mobile device not at the time of an accident, but sometime beforehand.
In the most recent case, Marina Usaceva had sent and received texts on two mobile phones in the 20 minutes prior to a crash in which the driver of the other car was killed.
In mitigation, her defence barrister said that there was a gap of six minutes between using the phones and the accident itself, something he described as “clear water”.
However, sentencing Usaceva to six years in prison, Judge Sean Enright said: “If you were not sending texts at the time, then you were fiddling with your phone and that is what caused the collision. Mobile phone use while driving is a plague on our society.”http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2014/8/22/mobile-phones-plague-on-society-says-judge-as-crash-driver-is-jailed/53341/