Mounting your phone to windscreen in Victoria

Hi Michael.

As reported here in Brisbane, she was initially asked to remove the phone/ mount as it was obscuring her forward vision. The video played of her eventually being arrested after she would not present her licence, was taken by her phone (as she admitted) and it appears that it was in front of her face as the vision was almost front on.

From what I understand the same applies to a windscreen mounted GPS, that it can't obscure your vision.

Will be interesting to see the wash up.

Cheers,

Mike

Ever seen all the stuff in the front screen of a police vehicle ? ?
I've often wondered who passed that off as legit.


Ron

Pretty sure this has been covered before Michael. The only (?) requirement is that such devices are properly secured and that they don't obstruct a driver's view, so it depends on where she had it mounted.

Edit: https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/blood-boiling-dramatic-footage-of-natalie-bonnett-being-dragged-from-car-by-police/news-story/9ffac2fd84612a8a3fa56a48cfe3e72d

Mike, same law as in most states. Phone/GPS/TPMS cannot be placed where it obscures your vision or distracts attention. Her arrest was for failing to provide a name and address. Yet another silly person wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Channel seven news interviewed her and put the same thing to her. She came across as a goose.

Driving a car on a highway, produce your licence or state your name and address and produce ID (funnily enough those requirements are clearly outlined to you and you acknowledge them at the time of taking your "Learners" test and again when you take your drivers licence test).

What good does jacking up the coppers serve unless you want to get your head on TV. Unfortunately it's far to typical these days.

Looked and sounded like Karen from Bunnings...

The rule of thumb is anything in the wiper arks are illegal this also goes for cracks, chips, etc. this normally will stand up in court as its the only clear vision area on a rainy day & approved by gov dept this was amended to cover rear vision mirrors & recently electronic sensors (wiper & head lights etc)

Pity we don't know the lady's name. She could be added to the list that Karen from Bunnings currently occupies..

I don't understand why people use windscreen mounts anymore now that the magnetic mounts affix to your dash with 3M backing stickers (supplied) and are so easy to use.

You can buy something cheap from $4 on eBay that will do the job. eBay magnet dash mounts for phones
Or one of these "Scosche" magnetc mounts which we use. $24 for the one I use. Full Range of Scosche MagicMount brackets from JB Hi Fi

The biggest obstruction is to the modern day vehicles is the exterior mirrors.. that you can't see past ;((
& not to mention those BIG wing nut mirrors that very man & dog seems to need to tow van with .

Years ago I saw a woman who had an A4 sized photograph of her children hanging from the rear vision mirror.

I couldn’t help thinking of the possibility of her not seeing a child on the road because all she could see was her own.

I once read the late great Peter Brock urge us to particularly cautious about drivers with ornaments and other distractions hanging from mirrors or stuck on windows.

Fluffy dice in particular.

Take care on the road people.

It’s a great pity we have to have laws for things that should be commonsense!!
But the fault is with the way most people are taught to drive, behave in traffic , be aware of things like being able to see your surroundings etc. etc.

Like everything transport and safety related, there is an ADR for this, probably a lot of vehicles aren't compliant, but I'm guessing that the police apply a lot of discretion to its application.
Setting up the phone holder with the intention of recording yourself baiting them into reacting is probably not going to end well.

Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule 93/00 Forward Field of View) 2018