Driver: I wasn’t on my phone, I was eating a hash brown

<p>A man who says he was wrongly cited for distracted driving after police mistook a McDonald’s hash brown for a cellphone is continuing his legal fight.</p>

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<p>A man who says he was wrongly cited for distracted driving after police mistook a McDonald’s hash brown for a cellphone is continuing his legal fight.</p>