M5 driver watching TV behind the wheel

Police are investigating after a video emerged of a driver watching TV on her mobile phone while driving her car through the M5 tunnel.

Traffic in the M5 tunnel. Picture: Damian Shaw

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Police are investigating after a video emerged of a driver watching TV on her mobile phone while driving her car through the M5 tunnel.

2GB’s Ben Fordham Show posted the video, provided by one of their listeners, which was apparently taken about 5pm last Thursday by a passenger in a car travelling in the lane next to the driver.

The driver cannot be seen in the video, but a phone in a cradle can clearly be seen attached to the windscreen to the right of the steering wheel. It is showing an unidentifiable TV show or movie.

NSW Police Chief Inspector Phil Brooks this afternoon told Ben Fordham on 2GB that officers from Strike Force Puma had the number plate of the car involved and would investigate the incident on Friday.

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“This is about changing people’s behaviour and getting them to keep their eyes on the road,” Inspector Brooks said.

He said anyone found guilty of the offence of “using a video display unit” while driving could be fined $337 fine and lose five demerit points from their licence.

Inspector Brooks said thousands of people have been fined for the offence in the past year.

He also said an Uber driver who was videoed by a 2GB listener watching “unsavoury” material on a screen while driving earlier this year had been prosecuted for it.

In that case, Ray Hadley passed on the video and details of the car’s registration to police.

TV or a movie is clearly showing on a mobile phone attached to the driver’s side windscreen. Picture: 2GB/YouTube