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Canterbury police are cracking down on drivers flouting cellphone and seatbelt rules after an increase in preventable deaths.
The Northern Outlook asked how often do you see people on their phones behind the wheel?
Scott Nelson:
‘‘As a commercial driver in town I see at least a hundred plus a shift easily, and that’s a night shift, I almost cleaned out a single crewed cop car after he used his iPad to do a vehicle check on a car he was about to pull over once, thankfully I was able to see the screen light up and back off a bit in the lane next to him.’’
Chantel Cox:
Everyday in Kaiapoi. Mostly trades-people and more disappointing mums on the school run. Shame on you all!’’
Denyce Carroll-Samson:
‘‘I see people using their phone in Christchurch all the time - even the boys in blue. It’s about bloody time they cracked down on it.’’
Jayne Toohey:
‘‘I see it so often and it’s not the ‘young ones’, it’s those in
Jo Molyneux:
‘‘It’s so common. I think it is worse when they have the phone balanced on the steering wheel and they are obviously texting. I would be very happy if they did crackdown on this.’’
Lyndall Chisnall:
‘‘All the time! it’s every second car that goes by they are on their cellphone.’’