{"id":30884,"date":"2023-03-16T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/16\/mounted-police-ride-after-driver-holding-his-phone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:34:32","slug":"mounted-police-ride-after-driver-holding-his-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=30884","title":{"rendered":"Mounted police ride after driver holding his phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Two mounted police officers rode after a man spotted holding his mobile phone while driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">They saw him driving through East Reach in Taunton, Somerset last Tuesday and quickly turned their horses around and caught up with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It is illegal to hold and use a phone, tablet, or any device that can send or receive data, while driving or riding a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Avon and Somerset Police said the man had been issued with a traffic offence report and would be issued with a \u00a3200 fine plus six points on his licence, or he could choose to take the matter to court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-64982398?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Two mounted police officers rode after a man spotted holding his mobile phone while driving. They saw him driving through East Reach in Taunton, Somerset last Tuesday and quickly &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}