Overview

• Police will intensify enforcement from Monday, Oct. 6, through Sunday, Oct. 12, focusing on illegal use of phones, tablets and laptops while driving.
• Controls also address headphones, unsecured loads and insufficient child restraints, with checks extending to truck drivers and cyclists.
• Baden-Württemberg is participating with both stationary and mobile checkpoints, noting distraction was the state’s second-leading cause of fatal crashes last year.
• Rhineland-Palatinate is the first German state to roll out monocams to detect phone use at the wheel after testing, drawing criticism from the ADAC.
• Authorities point to ongoing tolls on German roads, with roughly 1,000 people injured and eight killed daily, and one in six fatalities last year involving cyclists.