The Sunday Times May 14, 2006
Drivers who smoke may face £60 fine
MOTORISTS who light up behind the wheel face on-the-spot fines of up to £60 under plans to extend smoking restrictions to private cars It is proposed that Smoking should be listed alongside eating, drinking and reading maps as potentially lethal distractions in a new version of the Highway Code to be published next year.
Drivers who smoke would, for the first time, receive fines similar to those handed out for using a mobile phone.
The offence would fall within Department for Transport regulations requiring motorists to have “proper control” of their vehicle at all times.
Transport chiefs have been persuaded to class smoking as a dangerous activity following concerns that hundreds of people in Britain are killed or injured each year by motorists distracted after lighting up
Bolloxs...absolute fecking turd ridden bollocks
Drivers who smoke may face £60 fine
MOTORISTS who light up behind the wheel face on-the-spot fines of up to £60 under plans to extend smoking restrictions to private cars It is proposed that Smoking should be listed alongside eating, drinking and reading maps as potentially lethal distractions in a new version of the Highway Code to be published next year.
Drivers who smoke would, for the first time, receive fines similar to those handed out for using a mobile phone.
The offence would fall within Department for Transport regulations requiring motorists to have “proper control” of their vehicle at all times.
Transport chiefs have been persuaded to class smoking as a dangerous activity following concerns that hundreds of people in Britain are killed or injured each year by motorists distracted after lighting up
Bolloxs...absolute fecking turd ridden bollocks
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