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Motoring industry experts have raised concerns that, without transparency around the reasons for ban exceptions, safety and trust in the system could be compromised.

Nicholas Lyes, director of policy and standards at road safety charity IAM RoadSmart, said the "shocking statistics" called into question the definition of exceptional hardship.

Steve Gooding, director of motoring research charity the RAC Foundation, added "more transparency" was needed for "collective safety" and "public confidence".

“For women, love, dating, marriage and childbirth were no longer perceived as refuges of peace and safety, but the site of exposure to male violence and subordination,” feminist scholar Yoon-kim Ji-young wrote in 2020, describing the 4B movement as “the complete severing of any emotional, mental, financial or physical dependence on men.”

Giving examples, Chait said a school lockdown by itself would not be a big enough emergency to allow students to access phones because such actions can be short — sometimes 10 minutes — and are often taken as a safety precaution in response to issues taking place off-campus.