drivers with mobiles..name & shame..

goldspanners

gabyjane wrote: »

grr..so many people wanting/needing jobs and so many muppets out there thinking they are invincable to rubbish driving.

yawn yawn...do my job then.:p

scbk

mchale wrote: »

Ditto, when watching these police docs, can any one explain how the police get away with using their radios while driving.

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Oh but they are .."specially trained"..in the same way as they are specially trained to speed,drive whilst chomping a bacon muffin and speak to ordinary members of the public in an overbearing and arrogant fashion.

Nobody else can be specially trained to do this,only coppers:rolleyes:

It's perfectly legal to use a handheld two way radio whilst driving (so long as your driving isn't affected), I sometimes do

It is also legal to use a handheld mobile phone whilst driving, so long as you are making an emergency call

housesitter

HalfPint wrote: »

It also wouldn't be long before some malicious ex, jealous wife/husband/partner/mistress decided it would be a great way to get revenge by falsifying information!

Well it's up to the evidence to determine it isn't it.
Community speed cameras seem to work well enough for people to get a warning letter and that is done on the trust of the people doing it.

Lemonade_Pockets wrote: »

I'd contend that if you so preoccupied with other peoples driving that you are video/photographing/writing down reg numbers i.e. generally being a busy body and gathering evidence, then you probably aren't concentrating enough on your own road craft.

On the contary, notcing what other drivers are doing and assessing their risk factor is quite an important part of driving.
If you are not concentrating whilst being on your phone and up my !!!! then I need to take that into account and drive accordingly.
It's called defensive driving.
Check out the Institute of Advanced Motorists, you might learn something.

TBH tho, most people back off me when they spot the CCTV

rev_henry

scbk wrote: »

It's perfectly legal to use a handheld two way radio whilst driving (so long as your driving isn't affected), I sometimes do

It is also legal to use a handheld mobile phone whilst driving, so long as you are making an emergency call

Presumably because all you can do with a radio is push a button and talk rather than mess about dialling numbers, texting etc with a phone.

And about that texting while driving crash vid. Does anyone actually text while driving? Its obviously dangerous because you (usually) have to take your eyes off the road and use two hands. As opposed to talking when you can just use one hand and talk and still look in front of you. I still think talking while driving is completely stupid and irresponsible, unless its legal with a handsfree of course.

This thread has degraded to personal bickering again, like similar others.

emmell

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

people do realise its the not the act of holding a phone that is the distraction, i love it when people compare it to smoking whislt driving

What about smoking and talking on a mobile phone while driving a large roadsweeper in a very busy area (outside a hospital ), both hands being used, so what was he steering the wagon with? The mind boggles!
ML.

computershack

gabyjane wrote: »

I am so so sick of seeing stupid drivers with mobiles in their hands while driving, i feel really strongly about it and it never ceases to amaze me how many idiots still do it...the best are the lorrys

Yet HGVs have 1/6th the number of accidents of cars per km. Considering the average HGV driver does 5 times the annual mileage of a car driver, that makes lorries 36 times more safer.....

I've done 1.8 million miles both points and accident free as a HGV driver. You?

rev_henry

computershack wrote: »

Yet HGVs have 1/6th the number of accidents of cars per km. Considering the average HGV driver does 5 times the annual mileage of a car driver, that makes lorries 36 times more safer.....

I've done 1.8 million miles both points and accident free as a HGV driver. You?

Because they have to jump through all kinds of hoops training wise to get and keep an HGV licence I presume? The idiot HGV drivers don't last very long/get as far as they might in a car. Or so the theory goes...