L-plater who held child, phone convicted
Miklos Bolza |
A L-plater nabbed by police while driving with a child on her lap and a mobile phone in her hand has been convicted after pleading guilty.
Lolelai Iakopo was issued a six-month community corrections order at Bankstown Local Court on Wednesday, but avoided any time in custody.
On November 1 last year a mobile phone detection camera at Bankstown, in southwest Sydney, snapped the 28-year-old woman driving a Queensland-registered motor vehicle holding a mobile phone with a small child on her lap.
Transport for NSW then referred the matter to NSW Police on December 7 with charges laid a week later.
The Punchbowl woman pleaded guilty to a total of five charges including reckless driving, using a mobile phone while not permitted, driving with an unrestrained child, being unaccompanied as a learner driver and not wearing a seatbelt properly.
As well as imposing the corrections order, magistrate Beverley Schurr disqualified Iakopo from holding a driver’s licence for 12 months and fined her a total of $300.
AAP
