Consider cameras as handheld devices when driving on roads, through parks

When you are in the park or driving along a scenic route or you see a wild animal crossing or grazing along the road don’t reach for your camera until you have stopped the vehicle.
Or if you have passengers ask them to take the pictures.
If you do reach for the camera and start taking pictures it is no different than reaching for your phone and texting. Anything in your hands that takes your attention off the road is considered handheld.
What to do?
Look at the scenery or the wild animals, enjoy it for the moment.
It is better to arrive home alive and safe and to tell them about what you saw than to have an officer at the door to tell them what you did and why you are not coming home again.
Don’t put yourself or your family thru the trauma. Are a few pictures worth your life or others’ lives?
The consequences are too high to you and your family, friends and others.


Karen Bainbridge
Utterson