If you’re wearing earbuds but your phone is dead, is it still distracted driving? B.C. court says yes

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“Since the earbuds were part of the electronic device and since the earbuds were in the defendant’s ears, it necessarily follows that the defendant was holding the device (or part of the device) in a position in which it could be used, i.e. his ears,” Judicial Justice Brent Adair said.

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