Using a Telephone Whilst Driving

tony6403

This is routine for so many ,particularly professional drivers.
What seems to be overlooked is those stupid ba5tard5 who decide to stop to take/make a call apparently wherever they happen to be.
This week alone I encountered one who had stopped sock on a pelican crossing and , amazingly, another on a blind steep uphill bend with double yellows one side and double whites on the other.
Both oblivious to their stupidity.

macma

This is something that makes us scream.My OH lost a work friend who was using her phone while driving,she crashed and died.Barely 40 what a waste.:(
We find ourselves yelling at folk at junctions etc "get off the phone" which perhaps is as distracting as the phoning itself.But it's such stupid thing to do and sadly until tragedy strikes the fools don't realise it.
Thanks for raising it Tony

brightonman123

take down their reg number (if safe to do so!), or even a photo, and grass em up to the rozzers!

Coopdivi

People used a Dictaphone years ago. That was dangerous as well.

rustyboy21

Most professional drivers, i.e reps,delivery drivers etc have hands free kits fitted by their companies. Most reps cars are chosen for their bluetooth kits fitted as standard. I have an avensis estate and that has it fitted. Phone stays in my pocket all day. I have kits fitted in my co vans, so engineers drive legal. It is in their contracts that it is a sackable offence if caught driving whilst holding phone for a call.

I find it is the female drivers who are the worst cuplrits, considering they may have their kids in the car, it doesn't stop them ringing their mates or texting whilst driving. They seem oblivious to the danger they are putting their kids in.

Plxply

brightonman123 wrote: »

take down their reg number (if safe to do so!), or even a photo, and grass em up to the rozzers!

You could get a passenger to call 999, they are engaging in dangerous driving after all. It's not really them I care about, it's more the fact that they are putting other people's lives in danger with their reduced concentration and also pushing up everyone's premiums! (I know how important that is for MSE members )

Searcher

Plxply wrote: »

You could get a passenger to call 999, they are engaging in dangerous driving after all. It's not really them I care about, it's more the fact that they are putting other people's lives in danger with their reduced concentration and also pushing up everyone's premiums! (I know how important that is for MSE members )

999 is for emergency calls only!

nonnatus

TEXTING while driving???? How is that even possible :eek:?

God, I'm so sheltered!

But I am also ridiculously irritated by those people (men in suits usually) who feel it is their right to stop the car, wherever they may be, to answer the phone. One such man, the other day, had pulled onto a teeny bit of pavement at a roundabout!! I tooted, slowed down and asked what on earth he was doing, had he broken down, did he need help moving the car? People behind ME now getting annoyed but he just told me to mind my own business, he had to take a very important call!!
Obviously his call was far more important than the journey of all the commuters he was blocking.

And there lies the problem really - everyone thinks their own little lives are so much more important than everyone else. And we have become slaves to those little black boxes...

I honestly think that mobile phones are at the root of all evils and maybe in 50 years they will be recognised as such and banned (like fags).

As long as they don't take mine away this week because I'm waiting for a REALLLLY important call about a job I applied for.... :rotfl:

ShaneUK

Apparently one of the latest "crazes" is updating a Facebook status - whilst driving!!

pmduk

Drivers disconnect all common sense and consideration for other when they get behind the wheel.

Badger_Lady

I have a Bluetooth handsfree kit but the cabin of a moving 1970's campervan is not a great place to take an important phonecall. If I'm spending 4-6 hours driving and someone calls to confirm / cancel an appointment for the next day, or to reply to a job application, or to ask a question about my room to rent, then darn right I'm gonna pull over and take the call in a quiet, safe environment.

As long as I'm out of the way and properly parked for the three minutes it takes to conclude such a phonecall, what on earth is the problem?