Charging your phone in your car is not the same as using it, B.C. judge rules

issued in Victoria provincial court on Feb. 11, judicial justice H.W. Gordon ruled that the accused woman - Meghan Sarah Wesley Wylie - was not "using" her phone as defined in the Motor Vehicle Act, and therefore could not be guilty of distracted driving.

These two facts - that the screen was not illuminated and that she was not touching it with her hands - were key to the judge's interpretation of B.C.'s distracted driving law. Judicial justice Gordon wrote that simply charging a device does not constitute operating one of its functions, in the same way that plugging in a TV doesn't constitute "using" it.Numerous cases relating to distracted driving in B.C. have ended with courts upholding tickets, even in unusual circumstances.that a woman was guilty of distracted driving for holding a phone with her legs while driving, even though the phone's screen was not illuminated at the time.

After that ruling, former B.C. solicitor general Kash Heed, one of the architects of the province's distracted driving law, told CTV News Vancouver that the justice "got it right."

This is what our tax dollars fund. Completely out of control cops.

Yah! Don’t have it on your person whilst driving unless you intend on using it. Change the law simple.

Good!!! Comensense. The cop that charged her should be made to pay the court costs!!

But why have it in one's lap whilr charging? Only reason is to use it!

Police would be better used removing blockades rather than concerning themselves with petty things

Lotta self-righteous folk huh....

There is little doubt she was using it. The judge was fed a line of baloney - and believed it.

Riiiiight. When I charge my phone I always hold it in my lap.

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