Can you get sent FPNs in the post for using a mobile?

qwertyk2009 · 4 Jun 2021 at 21:58

Stupid of me I know.
I needed to check my phone, so I pulled down a residential side road.
I looked at my phone for a few seconds, before I put it away, and I saw a police car pass just as I did this. Now they didn't pull me over....so am I in the clear, or can I expect an FPN in the post for using a phone? I know it was stupid, I should have just pulled up in a space down said road and come to a stop.

Also, if it helps, it was a regular, run of the mill patrol car, don't believe it had ANPR, so unless they noted my plate I guess they don't have it.

qwertyk2009 · 5 Jun 2021 at 10:21

I'm still worried, I can't remember what even happened that clearly. Isn't it 2 weeks for them to issue one?

qwertyk2009 · 5 Jun 2021 at 22:03

Burnsy2023 said:
You won't be prosecuted due to some evidential difficulties post some relatively recent case law.

Has the loophole not been fixed yet then?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/next ... e-loophole

Given that i wasn't stopped, if they were to send a FPN, I could challenge it, but then how would they prove what i was doing on it?

qwertyk2009 · 5 Jun 2021 at 22:06

hurfdurf said:
If they didn’t pull you over how will they ID the driver?

I assume they'd have at least a vague idea of what I looked like, and ask me to ID in the post, and they'd then check it with my description.
I don't know if police dashcam would be accurate enough