If you get the urge to do it..... don't

Been told by a couple of insurers that a CU80 convicttion (driving when on a mobile) will next year be rated the same as a DR10 (drink driving).
ie... they'll either put a big increase on your policy, or refuse to quote at all.

You have been warned

 

and so it should one of my pet hates

 

no excuse for it, i got parot hands free kits of fleabay for my vans for Ł55 each. see dozens of people everyday in london on the phone driving, and some of these people are driving cars worth in excess of 20k ffs

 

About time, it should result in a ban not a few points!

 

Wow bit harsh i got caught as i was on the phone to my mum who was having a heart attack at the time, granted this was over 4 years ago.

There is no excuse, not now hands free kits are so cheap but 4 years ago they werent so cheap.

 

I got caught 2 years ago doing about 20 mph. 3 points 60 quid fine and i want do it again and thats why my insurance is so high now.

 

i see far worse happening each day that people on the phone.i dont see it as a big deal.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 .
whats the world coming to. next i wont be able to snort lines of my dashboard whilst my passenger steers.

 

pics or vid please

 

yeah, ok. ill post them up right away. any other offences youd like to see me commit?

 

I agree worse stuff goes on, but people on mobiles driving are a fucking menace, paying jackshit attention to the road, serving, braking suddenly etc. I think a months ban for it would start waking people up, the 3 points clearly aint helped as there are still loads who do it. This is coming from someone who used to do it all the time, the 3 points scare was enough to wake me up. Being in a car with someone on their phone is fucking scary.

 

about time.

should be 28 day ban really.

theres loads of motoring offences they need to hot up on.

 

I did it in traffic stupid mistake now i have 3 points i avoid using the phone in the car i mite invest in a parrot how do you rate these ?

 

ROFL

 

Exactly. But they'll get away with it because it will get idiot support. When they get enough idiot support through lots of propaganda, they can do anything they want.

There are many far worse things than using a mobile whilst driving. And the actual offence is a whopping great grey area. If you literally touch your phone whilst driving, a wanker cop can treat that the same as someone in a full blown conversation/texting session whilst driving.

Nope, not the same thing. And drink offences are another crock of shit. Why they treat someone who is totally competent and capable just at or over the legal limit the exact same as someone who cant see or stand, blind drunk, again just baffles me.

The government have no real notion about road safety or how to improve things, nor do they care. It's just a case of dreaming up new legislation to fine motorists. And when they have idiot support, they'll get away with it

 

That's the point....some wanker cops here were doing people parked in a layby safely off the road, purely because their engine was still running !!

The law is so stupid, that if your keys are in the ignition and the handset is in your hand, then they can convict. The engine doesnt even need to be running !

What next, sitting eating a takeaway in the car with the engine running will become an offence ? Which is more dangerous. Eating, or using a phone when parked ?

Lets just hope they arrest any speed camera van operators who leave their engines running for heat during the winter.

 

Most people ive seen or know of text more than they talk on it while driving..

 

Most people I see on the roads cant drive for shit and they arent texting or making calls !!

What new legislation do they have to tackle them ?

 

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..

 

i got done about 3 years ago for being on a mobile and hands free are good but not when you have to carry more than 1 phone, personally i think its over the top, people smoke, eat, drink etc all at the wheel and thats fine but the police love jumping on the mobile phone use, people say its dangerous which it is but PC plod goes along on there radio at high speeds and thats not.

Im just bitter but my points should be off next year.

 

Yer its ok for PC PISTON SLAP to talk on their dog and bone but we cant and taxis to whats the diff.

 

Plenty of people drive one handed whilst having a conversation, either hands free or with a person in the car, cant see much of a difference really.....

 

Saw a bird on the phone checking her make up in the rear view mirror oblivious to everything whilst driving along the A1. I was so shocked I dropped my coffee all over my newspaper

 

i was in a car with a mate once when he managed to navigate a tight left hand bend at a fair speed steering with his knees as he had a bigmac in one hand, his phone in the other and didnt even squash the milkshake that was inbetween his legs! totally innapropriate behaviour but i was pretty impressed tbh

 

People are allowed to smoke when they drive and that's way more serious than talking on a mobile i mean what would happen if the end fell off there fag. It's shocking people getting done for being on the phone I got stopped 2year ago and they gave me a ticket which I threw away never heard anything back from it. Arseholes what they are it's a criminals they need to catch. I rang the police the other day as some prick had nicked my brand new led recovery light of my van which was parked in my yard and they asked if I knew who nicked it when I said no they asked what I wanted them to do.

 

They say that more fatal accidents are caused by people on their phones than drink driving nowadays,




Still think its ok to do it?

 

I hate it when people are on there phones when they are driving.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.

 

You believe everything you read do you? Next thing you will see more accidents are caused by people smoking whilst driving, we need to ban them with more fines and more points! It's just biased propaganda, that's all!

 

gets on my tits too

but i dont think its harsh considering my cousim is now a vegetable as a result from crashing whilst arguing with his ex on the phone and driving

agreed the law needs to be cleared up

 

no not everything but i did think about that one for a while and its pretty feasible. Think about the social stigma nowadays for drink driving and how little people do it now and then think about how many people that you see every single day driving while they are on their phone. They say that your concentration level is the same as being drunk.

 

There isn't really an excuse to have your phone planted to your ear anymore, bluetooth parrot kits are cheap and easy to install, I fitted one last year and it was the best thing I've done.

Having said that, I often find myself eating some fruit while driving into work in the morning, so that's just as distracting I guess.

 

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......

If the phone call in the car is THAT important, then you NEED to stop, due to what the concern over the call is..

Point given, rant over

 

White lorry never even braked she was in a green pug 206 remember the program well

I've done it before but i dont anymore having said that they need to get a grip and back off wwith this being parked up with the engine running law my mate just got done for that its hardly gonna make people pull up if your gonna get done either way is it

 

Agreed it never should be done, I got caught the one week I was without my handsfree kit, old stereo with bluetooth was stolen and was waiting for a new one. The annoying thing about it was, I was negotiating a roundabout, being in the correct lane, indicating and spotting the undercover police car coming the other way to end the call. the copper even said he was impressed but 'rules are rules'! Never done it again since, just not worth it. So many people are incapable of driving and doing anything else at the same time. Especially women or van drivers, they tend to struggle just to do the former. Worst one I saw was a women paramedic texting whilst driving an ambulance the other day :-O

 

What's next getting banned from having your screaming kids in the car totally doing your head in and causing a distraction lol

 

LOL must try this!

 

Considering they blame speeding on virtually all accidents, I'd find any of their statistics hard to believe.

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.

And driving whilst tired is far more dangerous than a few drinks. When has anyone ever been charged with that ? Do they even look for tired drivers ?

What about wankers driving with no lights on min severe weather conditions ? That IS dangerous driving. Ive never heard of anyone being charged ?

All they care about is dreaming up new ways to fine motorists. Yes driving whilst actually on a phone call is not safe. But there are far more dangerous ways to drive that they totally ignore.

 

I got caught about a year ago, won't even touch my phone whilst driving now

 

Agreed

 

Someone drove into the back of me at traffic lights. He wasnt on the phone, he wasnt drunk etc etc. So what was his excuse ?

And the most annoying thing, when I phoned the police, they didnt want to know a single thing about it.

The police pro actively hunt down drivers who have caused no harm to anyone in order to dish fines oiut etc. Yet when some do cause harm, they dont give a fuck.
Clearly they see safe drivers as ones who crash. And dangerous ones who dont actually cause any harm or inconvenience to others at all.

I havent found anyone, police or otherwise who can explain that logic to me.

And their stupid speed awareness courses etc. It seems they are only offered to people again who caused no harm, and havent actually done anything wrong except going a very small few mph over their limits.
And then their course, from people who have attended, actually has very little to do with speed awareness in the first place !!

Why dont they actually try and educate people who need to be educated on their driving ?

 

I got caught in august :-( on the m4 i was in standstill traffic and at most rolling at 2 mph. The police were coming down the hard shoulder pulling people left right and centre i know this as after i was issued with my ticket and on my way they drove down the hard shoulder with no lights on and then flashed another driver that was nearly at a standstill to move over. The police need to abide by the same rules as everyone else wankers