Watch: Driver in Kelowna issued distracted driving ticket after phone slips out of console
A driver passing through Kelowna learned a hard lesson that even holding your phone for “less than 10 seconds” could result in a distracted driving ticket.
Brenton Klause challenged the ticket in traffic court. A judicial justice sided with the RCMP officer and ordered him to pay the $275 fine.
Klause received the ticket on a trip from Victoria to Saskatchewan. He stayed in Kelowna for one night to do some antiquing.
He first went to the Value Village in West Kelowna. He then planned to travel to the Value Village in Rutland and plugged its address into the GPS on his phone.