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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Madeline Link

Here's what using a mobile phone cost the region's distracted drivers

A mobile phone detection camera at Griffiths Road Broadmeadow. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

DISTRACTED drivers have been slapped with more than $4.6 million in fines after mobile phone detection cameras caught bad behaviour across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens.

The state government rolled out its world-first mobile detection camera program in 2019, and since then Transport for NSW claims it has seen a huge change in driver behaviour when it comes to the dangerous issue.

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