{"id":17487,"date":"2020-10-24T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2020-10-24T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:23:09","slug":"using-cellphones-while-driving-lands-two-men-with-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=17487","title":{"rendered":"Using cellphones while driving lands two men with charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MILFORD: <\/strong>Two drivers were charged Oct. 16 with the use of their cellphones while driving after being spotted driving erratically and racing on Highway 104 near the Cobequid Toll Plaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial call went to Bible Hill RCMP of two vehicles&nbsp;racing on Highway 104 east bound east of the Toll Plaza, said East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell in the weekly From the Cruiser column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA Bible Hill member observed the vehicles but was not in a position to intercept and so the call was passed onto Enfield,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Bushell said an officer with the Enfield RCMP detachment located the vehicles on Hwy 102 south bound between exits 9 (Milford) and 8 (Elmsdale).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur members spoke to&nbsp;an 18-wheeler driver who witnessed the erratic driving and verified the vehicles involved,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell. \u201cIt was learned that during the erratic driving, the suspect drivers were using their cellular phones to record the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was confirmed by the officer and both drivers were charged for use of handheld devices while driving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] MILFORD: Two drivers were charged Oct. 16 with the use of their cellphones while driving after being spotted driving erratically and racing on Highway 104 near the Cobequid Toll Plaza. The initial call went to Bible Hill RCMP of two vehicles&nbsp;racing on Highway 104 east bound east of the Toll Plaza, said East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[1528,1529,1199,14],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-cellphones","tag-erratic-driving","tag-milford","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}