Cellphones

Driving demands your full attention

As of January 1, 2010, drivers in B.C. can no longer use hand-held cellphones and other hand-held portable electronic devices. Meanwhile, new drivers in GLP can't use cellphones or other portable electronic devices (including hands-free) while driving.

Many people also don't realize that it's also illegal to talk, type, text or dial on a hand-held cellphone or any hand-held portable electronic device while waiting in traffic or stopped for a red light.

If you get a call, let voice mail do its job or pull over. You lose 50 per cent of what's going on around you when you talk on your cellphone or text. Driving demands your full attention.

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Texting and driving could change your life—by taking someone else's. David McDonald's film, If Lives Are In Your Hands, won first place in the Distracted Driving category of ICBC's 180 short-film contest. See more student films on our Youtube channel