{"id":545643,"date":"2026-04-23T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:22:20","slug":"police-film-illegal-driving-from-unmarked-lorry-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545643\/","title":{"rendered":"Police film illegal driving from unmarked lorry cab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Using a mobile phone behind the wheel significantly increases your chances of being involved in a collision, with the distraction impairing both your judgement and reaction times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers in an &#8220;elevated cab position&#8221; onboard the vehicle &#8220;shared their observations&#8221; with roads policing colleagues who then intercepted the vehicles in question, the force said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It led to the 14 people who had used mobile phones while driving facing six penalty points on their licence and a \u00a3200 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Insp Si Jenkinson, road policing lead, said operations like this would continue to reduce the number of people injured or killed on the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Mason, National Highways&#8217; road safety manager for the South West, said:  &#8220;We know that the majority of people who use our roads drive safely but there remains a minority who continue to put themselves and others at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called on motorists to &#8220;reflect on their driving&#8221; and prioritise safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: &#8220;Using a mobile phone behind the wheel significantly increases your chances of being involved in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-545643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}