I'm sure on just about every motorcycle ride I manage to spot at least 1 or 2 drivers still using their phones while driving, some looking down into their laps probably updating Facebook. You can spot them, they are usually drifting right to left, going unusually slowly oblivious to the queue behind. If it was up to me it would be a massive fine and 9 points. Recently I've noticed a new trend developing; some drivers just stopping..... anywhere to take a call. Blind bends, junctions, country roads. What the f#ck is wrong with these people? How important can a call be? Hope something can be done to make using phones while driving as unacceptable as drink driving.
Absolutely infuriates me and its so commonplace its just not funny anymore. So called professional truck drivers are among the worst offenders, you'd think as the cab is effectively their office they would install a hands free. Penalties need to be huge.
The really grip my gonads too. I have hands free in my car but don't use it and never have when I'm driving, I leave that to She Who MUST Be Obeyed.
I never understand why when there are two people in the car the driver has to use the phone. If it's that important pull over somewhere safe and use the bloody thing
It's scary just how distracted some drivers are. I have a nice 'hands free' system that came built into the radio package of my Transit van but I don't use it. Trouble is these fancy in car systems once hooked up to Bluetooth also show who has texted, emailed or messaged you on a large colour screen built into the dash.
And the car manufacturers encourage this with all their new models including ever more 'connectivity'. All it would take is for ALL vehicles to have a sort of 'jammer' fitted, so the bloody things just don't work.
it's absolutely rife over here. They even put up signs on roads and motorways reminding drivers not to use phones whilst driving (duh!! isn't it bleeding obvious). I agree with others here - massive fine would deter people
A good few years ago now, when the use of them was starting to take off in a big way, a couple of blokes at a place i worked were killed in a van by someone turning into them while on the phone. Nothing is that important it can't wait. I found even using a hands free set was distracting so try not to do that either. Huge fine may well help but there are so many self important people out there they will still use them.
Totally agree with that. Block the signal and no-one can use them. The roads would be a safer place. When the authorities get their act together to record the cause of road traffic accidents more accurately, it will be found that the use mobile communications in any form, will be the largest cause of serious and fatal accidents - much bigger than D and D. The thing that drives me completely nuts is how obvious this problem is !!!!People nowadays are completely attached to their phones, no matter the consequences.
My solution: Get all coppers on the streets detecting and stopping the culprits next Monday at 8:00 am. Take the culprit and the vehicle to the crusher. Crush vehicle. Fine the culprit £1,000 plus 1 year driving ban plus a charge for crushing the vehicle. When 10,000 vehicle have been crushed nationwide , stop. Enjoy watching BBC news. Repeat if necessary.
Drives me nuts as well,I work in a builders merchants yard and the amount of people that drive in while on the phone is frighting. A bloke came in the other week and was moaning because he'd just been caught and fined,when I suggested that if he hadn't been on it he wouldn't have been fined he looked at me as if I was stupid. If their caught confiscate the phone on the spot. £1000 to get it back. And how can manufactures get away with basically building an i pad into the cars dash.
Phone should be stamped into the ground in front of the offender by a size 11 police boot. Car impounded immediatly, licence cancelled and a re-test needed. Twat in a large van wondered into my lane on the M3 the other day whilst texting.
Just to add some humour to this, I was in Rome last week and not only do the scooter riders there start texting on their phones when they are at a red stoplight, but I saw the ultimate "hands fee" setup. There was a young woman on her scooter weaving in and out of the traffic with the handset stuck in the side of her open face lid - the chinstrap was all that stopped it falling on the floor!
