The Duchess of Cambridge, who at the time was only Prince William’s girlfriend, was seen behind the wheel of her Audi A3 on a country lane. She was pictured holding her mobile phone to her ear as she drove near her family's Berkshire home. Since 2017, the fixed penalty for being caught using a handheld phone is £200 fine and six points on your licence but, at the time, the office would have carried a fine of £60 with no points penalty.
However, if someone had been injured, Kate could have faced a jail term up to two years.
A bystander told The Sun that the Duchess was also “going quite quickly” and that you could clearly see she was on the phone.
Roger Vincent, spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said at the time: "Using a mobile phone while driving is extremely dangerous and has cost numerous lives.
"Drivers are four times more likely to crash if they are on their mobiles.
"People get sucked more and more into conversations and less on what is going on around them