Drivers on mobiles

FOUR Shetland drivers were handed £60 on the spot fines and three penalty points for using their mobile phone while at the wheel of their vehicle on Monday.

Throughout the day Northern Constabulary ran a region-wide campaign in which they stopped 31 people using their mobile while driving and 21 not wearing a seatbelt.

In Shetland hard working officers checked 1,400 vehicles over 24 hours, with no one being found to be without a seatbelt fastened.

In Orkney and the western isles the police only stopped 300 vehicles, finding two people on their mobile and one without a seatbelt in Orkney, and one on their mobile in the Hebrides.

Acting inspector Norman MacLeod of the road policing unit said the force was disappointed to find so many people breaking the law, especially across the highlands where 24 people were on their mobile and 20 without seatbelts.