Is it time for British Columbia to overhaul its distracted driving legislation for greater clarity?
It’s a call some advocates are making in the wake last week’s Lower Mainland distracted driving enforcement blitz — and a slip-up by the province’s own public insurer in a safety video explaining exactly what is and isn’t legal when on the road.
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“Every step of this is muddled. The police officers aren’t trained on new decisions when they come out, so often if there is a B.C. Supreme Court judgment that says this one thing police officers have been ticketing for is not actually part of the offence, we have to go to court repeatedly, show the decision to multiple officers before the message finally gets out there,” she said.
“We even see police officers as recently as last week still misstating the law that is more than three years old.”
Lee believes its time for the province to start from scratch and write a new update to the province’s Motor Vehicle Act that clearly defines what is considered an electronic device, as well as exactly what drivers are and are not permitted to do with them.
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