Originally Posted by
fuzzy
to class drink driving as being on the same level as using your phone is nonsense and an obvious pick on an easy target money making excuse
I agree, I've seen people drive while drunk and I've seen people use mobile phones when driving... and the two aren't comparable IMO.
Originally Posted by
~nomad~
Being in a car with someone on their phone is fucking scary
I find that if the person is a competent enough driver, a short call on a dual carriageway isn't too bad... but I've been in cars with people texting and it is fucking dodgy, I don't normally interfere if someone else is driving but I've had to ask them to stop since I felt like it was just a matter of time until we did some damage to ourselves/others.
Originally Posted by
12340987
I drove past a woman doing about 55 in the middle lane of the m6 the other day, steering with her elbows, texting with her right hand, eating a sandwich with the left, i matched her speed and blasted the horn and she shit herself..
Fucking hell, do you not understand that scaring a woman driving at 55mph, who isn't in control of her car, could potentially cause a serious accident?!
Originally Posted by
cutch
They say that more fatal accidents are caused by people on their phones than drink driving nowadays
I didn't know that, but I'd like to see the report because they do tend to massage the figures to justify certain regulations which have/are about to be implimented.
Originally Posted by
Brian ST24
Disagree with some of the points above.
Eating fruit is not a temporary mental distraction to driving, as your mind can still be adequately focussed on driving.
People on the phone however, 99% of the time, are completely fucking oblivious to everyone else on the roads.......especially what seems to be the norm, any female over about 45 in any car worth more than around 10k ie Merc, BMW, Porsche's especially....not forgetting X5's.
I'm not saying that some people can't drive adequately while on the phone, I daresay many can, but not everyone on here can drive like a lot of the guys with track experience or high performance experience either.
Oh...and in case you hadn't noticed, they'r econsidering a ban on smoking in cars anyway......
I completely agree with banning smoking in cars, having a stick of burning shite hanging out your gob or in your right hand is not safe. You're partially thinking about your ash falling off, how good the carcinogenic fumes taste, how pricey a 20-deck is these days etc..
Originally Posted by
stevieturbo
They'll feed the public with bullshit until enough idiots believe them and then they start issuing fines for their bullshit.
As I say, they need idiot support to get these things off the ground.
Agree, fire out a few articles until enough mongos swallow the bait and it gathers enough momentum to give them the green light to continue.
Originally Posted by
Glenn.
I can remember a tv program where a bloke was on his phone in a truck and ran in the back on a lass which was on the way to her new job
she was stuck in a traffic jam and the bloke in the truck ran into the back of the lass and killed her.
The state of that poor girls Pug 206 (think that was car) was absolutely shocking, I can still remember it from watching that episode/news reports at the time... was reduced to about a metre long.
Cheers,
Grant