Stand to loose job for using mobile phone in car

Yorkshire-Lady_3

I appreciate this is off topic - but in MY OPINION, you shouldnt be able to smoke while driving either <<<<<ducks rotten tomatoes>>>>>

I know some of you will say that it's as dangerous to swap cd's/change radio channels, but smoking is far more dangerous. Drop a cd, it gets a scratch, drop a cigarette, and you risk swerving or setting your car on fire!

As I said, this is just MY opinion!

Sally x

wendfd

The owner of the following thread got much more sympathy?

Speedy Fine Appeals Form

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=442245

Beginning to wish I hadn't asked.:rolleyes:

LuciferTDark

For the first 2 yrs after passing your driving test it's 6 points & you lose your license, after that it's 12 points. I've just passed the 2yr mark with no points at all, it's not that difficult to stick to the rules.

Having seen the results of what can happen when someone uses their phone while driving I'd say he's gotten off lightly, he could have been staring at a death by dangerous driving conviction or he could have been dead himself, luckily for him the cops stopped him before that happened.

Lets hope this has educated him into thinking about other road users & not just himself.

Alikay

Yorkshire-Lady wrote: »

I appreciate this is off topic - but in MY OPINION, you shouldnt be able to smoke while driving either <<<<<ducks rotten tomatoes>>>>>

I agree - same goes for eating a Big Mac, drinking from a can, rummaging in glove box, opening pack of sweets, arguing with passengers, shaving with one of those in-car razors (eeeww!!) and all the other distracting things people get up to in the privacy of their own cars! If you could legislate against each and every one of them, someone would just come up with another risky in-car activity.

It must be said that speaking on a mobile phone has to be one of the most dangerous, and simplest to define - hence the law.

Sam_Bee

wendfd wrote: »

The owner of the following thread got much more sympathy?
Speedy Fine Appeals Form
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=442245
Beginning to wish I hadn't asked.:rolleyes:

Unfortunately you unintentionally opened up a moral debate, and taken a bit of a kicking at the same time.

That'll teach you to ask for help.

catlover1_2

LuciferTDark wrote: »

Having seen the results of what can happen when someone uses their phone while driving I'd say he's gotten off lightly, he could have been staring at a death by dangerous driving conviction or he could have been dead himself, luckily for him the cops stopped him before that happened.

Lets hope this has educated him into thinking about other road users & not just himself.

Firstly I have no points and use a hands free - I insert my sim card in the dashboard before starting the engine and use the controls on my steering wheel to answer the phone (and I drive over 30,000 miles per year) and sympathise with the OP ---- BUT this santimonious attitude of everyone and ridiculas statements such as the one above make me really mad.:mad: do you want to ban everything of course he wouldn't have killed someone just beause he used his phone any more then if he smoked, ate a sandwich, listened to the radio, talked to a passenger I could go on and on in fact anything at all that might reduce concentration,

Do you people want to ban everyone from driving and lock most of the population up ???

Surely there are real crimes out there to be worried about like stealing, gun crime etc... things that are truely bad not just thoughtless.

xx

kitchen_buff

My advice is dont do it again. I really hate drivers who use hand held mobiles whilst driving. there is no excuse for it, hands free kits and bluetooth are so cheap.
Here is a joke.
The vet tells the irish farmer that all his cows have got blue tongue.
Oh my god replied the farmer, I never even knew they had mobile phones.

LuciferTDark

catlover1 wrote: »

Firstly I have no points and use a hands free - I insert my sim card in the dashboard before starting the engine and use the controls on my steering wheel to answer the phone (and I drive over 30,000 miles per year) and sympathise with the OP ---- BUT this santimonious attitude of everyone and ridiculas statements such as the one above make me really mad.:mad: do you want to ban everything of course he wouldn't have killed someone just beause he used his phone any more then if he smoked, ate a sandwich, listened to the radio, talked to a passenger I could go on and on in fact anything at all that might reduce concentration,

Do you people want to ban everyone from driving and lock most of the population up ???

Surely there are real crimes out there to be worried about like stealing, gun crime etc... things that are truely bad not just thoughtless.

xx

Sorry but if you take your attention off the controls of the car & what the car is doing at the time you are a danger to other road users & even in some cases pedestrians, I forgot to mention in my last post that I was also clipped by a car while on the pavement thanks to the idiot behind the wheel using his mobile & mounting the kerb.

Again, ANYTHING that takes your attention away from properly controlling the car makes you a danger to other road users & yourself & you deserve what you get if you lose your license.

catlover1_2

LuciferTDark wrote: »

Sorry but if you take your attention off the controls of the car & what the car is doing at the time you are a danger to other road users & even in some cases pedestrians, I forgot to mention in my last post that I was also clipped by a car while on the pavement thanks to the idiot behind the wheel using his mobile & mounting the kerb.

Again, ANYTHING that takes your attention away from properly controlling the car makes you a danger to other road users & yourself & you deserve what you get if you lose your license.

Sorry what proof do you actually have that the phone was the cause of him mounting the curb ???? he might have done it anyway

I think you are just looking for a way to blame the phone for the drivers obviously bad driving ... if he mounted the pavement and hurt you he should have been done for driving without due care and attention or even dangerous driving ... but its how he was driving that caused the accident not using a phone

peterbaker

Gawd, what a load of old Marys on this thread!

I've been driving well over 30 years and got my first points about 3 months after I passed my test - I was breaking the speed limit in an Austin 1100 - should have got a medal not points! I only got stopped because I wasn't being green (petrol rationing speed limit 50mph applied last time OPEC got really shirty :eek:)

I have since collected no less than about six other speeding convictions, although never more than one on my license at an one time until this last year (which should give you a clue about how easy it now is to collect points compared to the days of my youth and exuberance), plus a rash of parking tickets.

But then I have driven about 600,000 miles which is like to the moon and back twice.

There was a period of about four years when I used to spend about two hours a day on the phone whilst driving (I was a rep) and I have had very few accidents (only two minor shunts that were my fault and none that I noticed whilst on the phone ) and like Rainman (Dustin Hoffmann) I consider myself a very good driver , but my eyesight isn't as good as it was so I might be more oblivious to Third Party gesticulations than I once was

BTW catlover, NICE CAR!