[Bluepete]

As a traffic Cop, if I can, I try to search the phones of people involved in RTC's if one alleges phone use. I don't have a legal power to do so without consent, I just ask and have a winning smile!

To get a phone analysed costs the job (as of the last time I did one) £96,00 plus VAT. It will take about three months to get a result.

The problem is, many people have more than one phone, and unless the emergency services took a call from them (all nos. automatically recorded on 999 system) there is no way to say whether a person even owns a phone.

Imagine the scenario; Person involved in RTC at fault 'cos of phone use. Person at fault never uses it to call EMS and gets the request to produce phone records. Now how to prove they even own a phone and if they do produce a record, is it their phone? Mine is in my wifes name 'cos it was a present. She *could* produce that record if the scenario was hers couldn't she?

Virtually impossible to prove that phone use caused the collision, only if witnesses say "He/She was on the phone" and the record shows use at the time.