The police documentation: S. is driving and holding a cell phone.
He didn't study even for the 15th time/ Israel Police Spokesperson, Israel Police
When we as drivers receive a serious report from a police officer, by hand or by mail, the initial inclination is to file an appeal.
But an appeal alone is not enough: you need good reasons why the report is not wrong or unjustified.
Otherwise we may leave the court with a material punishment much greater than the one with which we entered it.
This is what happened to Sh., a resident of the village of Shibli in the Galilee.
At the age of 66, he already had 14 convictions for using a cell phone while driving.
Thus, when he was photographed by a police officer from the North MTA doing this for the 15th time, while driving on Route 79, and according to the book received a report for NIS 1,000 and 8 mandatory points, he pleaded not guilty and filed an appeal.
One of the deadliest offenses today: one hand with the cell phone, the other with the steering wheel, and the head is not on the road/Nir Ben Tovim, manufacturer
The case was scheduled for an evidentiary hearing and at the time of the hearing S informed the court that he was admitting to committing the crime.
But now the prosecution's demand was for a more severe punishment.
The prosecutor, attorney Pek Liran Ezra from the Israel Police's Acre Traffic Claims, claimed at the hearing that the driver has 107 previous traffic convictions, not just talking on a cell phone while driving.
The result: the court, not enthused by the waste of its time, and the repeated offense, sentenced the accused to a fine double the original in the amount of NIS 2,000, along with a 45-day license suspension, as well as 80 hours of work for the public, which he can reach by bus or hitchhiking.
According to the police, cell phone use while driving is currently responsible for 20% to 50% of road accidents. One of the reasons for the discrepancy in estimates is the difficulty of legally proving A driver or pedestrian was holding a cell phone or looking at the screen at the time of the impact. But even outside the police, many experts estimate that this is the deadliest traffic offense today.
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