Who writes this stuff?
Drivers should be aware of the rules when ordering food from a drive-thru or they could face a massive fine and six points on their licence.
The Highway Code recently changed rules that motorists should know.
At the end of January, most Highway Code rules were updates including the hierarchy of the road.
It saw pedestrians and cyclists get more protections when out and about.
Many motorists enjoy going to KFC, McDonalds and Costa to get a drive-thru but they could be breaking the law and could get a big fine.
At the moment, drivers could fine a £200 fine or six points for using their phones while behind the wheel including when at a drive-thru.
Firstly, the Highway Code applies to the highways, not private land. It’s why you can use escooters on private land, for example and you wont be breaking the law. If you pull into a takeaway drive through, you are on private land – although it is a public space, so drunk in charge would still apply for example – and paying for your order using a banking app on your phone is perfectly fine. Using your mobile phone to do this is no different to handing over cash or a plastic card. No one is going to get prosecuted and have points and a fine for paying for a takeaway at a drive-through. No one.
So the article is bollocks on stilts with diamond encrusted knobs.
“Drivers will be extremely limited on when they can pick up their phone, mainly to call the emergency services when there was no opportunity to safely pull over and to make contactless payments at drive-thrus.
They even contradict themselves in the article. The headline being:
Motorists using drive-thrus face being fined under tough new Highway Code rules
No, they don’t.
Christ almighty, the standard of journalism.
Journaloid (noun): Someone who works for the media who is a bleedin’ arsehole.
I wouldn’t trust our modern police force not to ticket someone who was using their phone in a drive through anyway. Leaving them with the choice of either paying a fine despite being innocent or risking going to court and having no guarantee of being acquitted. A colleague at work witnessed a guy on a nearly new sports bike being ticketed for having bald tyres, it had less than a thousand miles on the clock. I’ve been hassled for having my chain too slack, they accepted my statement that it was set up exactly to the spec in the owner’s handbook. Of course your Beemers and Guzzis don’t have that problem.