Driver caught on phone whilst driving in Sussex 'saw no issue' with using Google Maps

A driver who was stopped by police on the A27 said he thought looking at his phone was fine 'as long as it’s just Google maps you’re using'.
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Sussex Roads Police officer Tom Van Der Wee said on Tuesday evening (April 13) that a van drove past him on the A27 in Arundel, West Sussex, 'with the driver tapping away at a phone mounted in the windscreen'.

"I proceeded to pull him over, in my bright big police car," PC Van Der Wee wrote on Twitter.

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"He genuinely saw no issue as 'it’s fine as long as it’s just Google maps you’re using'. Unbelievable. Ticket issued."

Speaking to this newspaper, the police officer added: "Using a mobile phone is one of the top causation factors in collisions resulting death or serious injury.

"It only takes a momentary lapse of concentration for potentially devastating consequences."