Crime & Safety
378 Driving With Cell Phone Citations Given by Santee Deputies
A year of cell phone citations nets about one a day.
The City of Santee reports that 378 citations for calling or texting on a cell phone without a hands-free or wireless listening device or speaker phone function have been handed out by Santee-based in the last year.
Santee's annual numbers come in below the earlier in the year.
Fines for illegally using a cell phone while driving vary depending on where you are, how fast you're going and other details, but in Santee you can currently expect to pay about $148 for your first offense, and it rises for further tickets. A bill is currently sitting on Governor Brown's desk that, if signed, will about double the fines.
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Adults are banned from texting and talking on a cell phone, unless using a hands-free device, and minors may not use one with or without a hands-free device.
The new law would extend the cell phone limitiations to bicycle riders as well.
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Santee Patch crime reporter Steve Perez went on a ride with the Sheriff's Dept. during a cell phone crackdown, .
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