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If the police kept all the money from speeding fines, don't you think (a) they'd be out looking for speeders a lot more and (b) they'd be fining more people, rather than promoting the speed awareness courses?

It bloody is....

Many of them are (a lot of these programmes are quite old) :)

Similar with certain US states (Florida I think being one). You can't have an open container of alcohol inside the car. It has to go in the boot.

Fines don't go to the police (and the emphasis these days is on education, i.e. sending people on diversion courses, rather than simply fining everyone who gets caught). Road policing budgets have been cut hugely in recent years (as have all police budgets, in fact). Sussex has considerably...

I would assume West Mercia Police would have some sort of non-emergency contact via email that you could send that to. It happens. That lorry driver who infamously overtook somebody by offsiding a roundabout in Turners Hill? He got prosecuted because the footage was sent to Sussex Police. He...

Any arrest, whether by the police or the public is supposed to be justifiable under the circumstances. In the case of a car, it may well be deemed that to force it to stop under those circumstances would not be justifiable, when you already have footage and presumably could give the police the...

Because there are legal defences to using a mobile phone whilst driving which would need to be negated first. Not saying it couldn't happen, but it's not nearly as simple as getting the footage and posting out a Notice of Intended Prosecution to the vehicle owner (who may not have been the...

It won't happen, because there could, feasibly, be a time when somebody genuinely did need to dial 999 whilst they were driving. Also, presumably such technology would impact on passengers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending these people. It's a bugbear of mine (handy, that). But I've yet...

Best person to ask is the Home Secretary.

Not on its own, no.

Not much use if you crash your car into a tree and need to urgently call an ambulance though, I guess.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/van-driver-with-eight-convictions-for-using-his-phone-at-the-whe/ http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-09-12/texting-lorry-driver-jailed-for-killing-police-officer-in-crash/