The BC Government is taking action to curb distracted driving.
Attorney General David Eby says once distracted driving is implemented as a high-risk driving behaviour under the ICBC Driver Risk Program, it will be on par with impaired driving and excessive speeding.
This means a driver with two distracted driving tickets in a three-year span will see financial penalties rise to as much as two thousand dollars.
Distracted driving is a factor in twenty-five percent of all car crash fatalities in BC killing an average of 78 people each year.
The changes take effect March 1st.
– with files from Pat Matthews, My Cariboo Now
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