'Low risk of being caught appende motorist'

rotterdam - The police in the Netherlands few specific checks to catch motorists who call or flaps behind the wheel. According to a tour of ten regional units of the police.

Four units left out or to have kept even specific checks. The other police units check occasionally or take the controls with the surveillance on the road.

The number of fines for calling or flaps behind the wheel goes back many years. So did the police still 140 000 people in 2010 fined because they were behind the wheel with their phones in the back. That number fell last year to 33 000, calculated the newspaper.

,, The risk of being caught is almost zero, '' said former traffic prosecutor Koos Spee in
AD.,,Look around you. On the way you see people constantly calling and texting. The latter is especially dangerous, because your eyes are no longer focused on the road. ''