Let-off for father ‘picking up phone’

on his licence for not identifying a driver in his vehicle last year. Another six for the mobile offence took him to 12 points, usually meaning an automatic ban.

But Parkinson claimed he needed to drive for his job to support his family and was instead fined £92 with £115 costs by city magistrates after admitting using a phone while driving.

Parkinson: Only fined A SECURITY guard caught holding his mobile phone at the wheel avoided a ban by claiming he was just picking it up off the floor. Steven Parkinson, 33, was seen by a police officer on a busy road in Manchester in April. But the...