The police have issued a ticket to 88 drivers on the N50 near Kampen because the drivers had a telephone in their hands. The officers were standing between Kampen and Hattemerbroek on Thursday afternoon and were shocked. The N50 is known as one of the roads with the most traffic accidents in the region.
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The check this Thursday afternoon was mainly focused on speed and distraction. They are the most common causes of accidents on the through road. “The fact that these checks are necessary is proven once again because we are shocked by the figures below,” the police reported on Facebook.
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Can’t keep up
88 drivers were caught and fined for holding the phone. In reality, there were many more people who couldn’t leave their cell phones alone. “We were only able to check on one direction of travel and occasionally we even ran out of motorcyclists to get them out of traffic,” said the checking police officers.
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18 drivers were fined for not wearing a seat belt, driving without a license and technical defects.
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143 kilometers per hour
In addition, more than a hundred people are fined for driving too fast. A hundred can be driven on the highway, but these people did not adhere to that. A car was clocked at 143 kilometers per hour.
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