{"id":48951,"date":"2026-03-26T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/48951\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:05:10","slug":"tallinn-investigating-bus-driver-filmed-using-mobile-phone-on-duty-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/48951\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn investigating bus driver filmed using mobile phone on duty | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Tallinn&#8217;s transport department is investigating footage taken of one of its bus drivers using their mobile phone while driving, Postimees&#8217; Russian-language edition <a href=\"https:\/\/rus.postimees.ee\/8438556\/video-zhitel-tallinna-vozmushchen-naskolko-bezopasno-ezdit-s-takim-voditelem-avtobusa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Postimees reader took footage of the driver of a number 60 Tallinn bus last Sunday morning, which shows the driver using the steering wheel with one hand while holding a smartphone, seemingly in use and causing a potential distraction, in the other hand.<\/p>\n<p>City of Tallinn Transport Department (TLT) head of public transport Rasmus Sachs thanked the member of the public for flagging the incident, confirming that using a smartphone while driving is unacceptable and does not meet TLT safety standards and commitments to passenger safety, adding internal procedures in respect of the driver are in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs stressed the incident was an isolated case which does not reflect on the cadre of 1,525 drivers as a whole, who &#8220;carry out their jobs professionally and responsibly,&#8221; adding TLT serves around 350,000 passengers per day on routes which would equate to a distance &#8220;approximately two and a half times around the Earth&#8221; per year.<\/p>\n<p>The Postimees reader who filmed the footage claimed it was not the first time they had witnessed such activity and suggested TLT&#8217;s management board resign.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u00a733 (11) (1) of the Road Traffic Act, any driver is prohibited from engaging &#8220;in activities that may impede the ability to drive or comprehension of the traffic environment while driving, including using a telephone without a hands-free device and holding a telephone in hand while the vehicle is moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Follow ERR News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ERRNews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Tallinn&#8217;s transport department is investigating footage taken of one of its bus drivers using their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[9722,764,27383,167,2695,4604,166,4591],"class_list":{"0":"post-48951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallinn","8":"tag-buses","9":"tag-city-of-tallinn","10":"tag-driving-safety","11":"tag-estonia","12":"tag-public-transport","13":"tag-road-safety","14":"tag-tallinn","15":"tag-tlt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116294682630722880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}