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Driver on Phone on Google Street View

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  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    Found this on street view just now:

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.503998,-2.500892&num=1&sll=51.423097,-2.575898&sspn=0.018954,0.06174&ie=UTF8&ll=51.497813,-2.47871&spn=0.001623,0.004699&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.497671,-2.47854&panoid=QEbRIA_tEPioRRj1kK2qSg&cbp=12,30.91,,0,14.6


    Clearly this guy is breaking the law - I wonder if the police will do anything about it? I bet there's loads of images like this that could get people into trouble.

    No - because it's not been witnessed by anyone, and they won't be able to serve a NIP on the Registered Keeper within 14 days of the offence, in any event. I wonder if the employers have seen it?
  • Sagz_2
    Sagz_2 Posts: 6,251 Forumite
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    The company concerned run driver training courses !!!!!!:
    http://www.pbts.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d19_driver_training.html
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  • saver_1_2
    saver_1_2 Posts: 285 Forumite
    Who says he is on a phone. It looks like a device but it might be a combe.
    Get a life
  • whatmichaelsays
    whatmichaelsays Posts: 2,927 Forumite
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    Anyway, I went on Google Street View to show this area to someone, and realised the Google car was driving down the middle of the bus lane :D

    clicky

    The Google car actually got stopped by Plod in Bradford for driving through a bus lane. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2363042.ece
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  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    Some of the people on here are really starting to worry me!
  • Lum
    Lum Posts: 6,460 Forumite
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    saver_1 wrote: »
    Who says he is on a phone. It looks like a device but it might be a combe.
    Get a life

    If it's a comb or a razor or something that still would come under "due care and attention" as did mobile phones before they made an unnecessary specific law for one kind of device.

    Who cares, unless there's evidence that he actually caused an accident, just ignore it and move on. There's much more dangerous and stupid things happening on the roads every day. Lorry drivers generally know how to correctly use communications devices while driving in a safe manner anyway.

    Also I believe it's still legal to make an emergency call while driving, maybe he's reporting a hit and run, or a suicide jumper on a bridge or something.
  • waynedance
    waynedance Posts: 673 Forumite
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    That was me driving the truck and I just got 3 points and the sack, cheers op.
    Google gives you answers use it.........
  • sebdangerfield
    sebdangerfield Posts: 509 Forumite
    edited 4 April 2010 at 11:19PM
    sarahg1969 wrote: »
    No - because it's not been witnessed by anyone, and they won't be able to serve a NIP on the Registered Keeper within 14 days of the offence, in any event. I wonder if the employers have seen it?


    This offence doesn't need a NIP. It simply has a 6 month limitation of proceedings.

    Technically, the driver could be prosecuted but it would be a very difficult one to prove beyond reasonable doubt so probably wouldn't ever get of the ground. In either case, it's unlikely the matter would be before the court before the 6 month limit so wouldn't start in the first place.
  • CHR15
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    Thats the first time I have noticed Street View is in 3D in the OP's link.
  • There's a stretch of cycle lane in Liverpool that always has pedestrians walking along it, even though there's pavement right next to it :mad:

    Anyway, I went on Google Street View to show this area to someone, and realised the Google car was driving down the middle of the bus lane :D

    clicky

    Is it actually a full time bus lane? If you back up, you can find plenty of other stuff driving in it too!
    Northern Ireland club member No 382 :j
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