New calls have been made for cyclists and users of e-bikes and e-scooters to be banned from using a mobile phone when driving.
This has come after a politician's close encounter with a cyclist outside Parliament. Conservative peer Baroness McIntosh of Pickering has urged that cyclists be prosecuted for the offence of using a mobile phone, as is done when driving a car.
This comes soon after reforms to the Highway Code in January including a hierarchy of road users aimed at protecting vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists from harm.
But former minister Lady McIntosh questioned why Rule 149 of the code, requiring motorists to “exercise proper control of your vehicle at all times” and forbidding use of a mobile phone while driving, did not apply to cyclists and other road users.
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