Heavy penalties for X'mas traffic offence

Heavy Penalty for traffic offence during holiday

Heavy Penalty for traffic offence during holiday. Getty Images Source: Getty Images

During Christmas and New year period, all jurisdictions in Australia will impose straight traffic law targeting drink driving and speed driving.


In addition, using mobile phones while the car engine is on is still regarded as using the phone while driving and will deduct 4 demerit points.

Derek Lo of Canaan Lawyer will highlight past cases of minor traffic offences but resulted in serious legal consequence.

However, Derek maintains all these minor offences could easily be avoided in the first place.


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