Mobile phone awareness course

Marvel1

Mercdriver wrote: »

This could all be done by hands free though?

I don't have a hands free kit.

Car_54

Marvel1 wrote: »

If another driver is chasing me for some reason.

If I witness a person being kidnapped, follow the car, giving police directions as ibfollow.

So we have a driver engaged in a high speed pursuit, without any relevant training, and the law allows him to take one hand off the wheel and make a phone call. Brilliant!

Marvel1

Car_54 wrote: »

So we have a driver engaged in a high speed pursuit, without any relevant training, and the law allows him to take one hand off the wheel and make a phone call. Brilliant!

Break the law or pull over and get attacked, i know what I'm choosing, yourself?

Mercdriver

Marvel1 wrote: »

I don't have a hands free kit.

Then get a visor kit. They are cheap enough.

Car_54

Marvel1 wrote: »

Break the law or pull over and get attacked, i know what I'm choosing, yourself?

I think the safety of other road users is more important than any individual, so on that basis the law is wrong.

Marvel1

Car_54 wrote: »

I think the safety of other road users is more important than any individual, so on that basis the law is wrong.

If you are happy to be attacked or worse killed, fair play to you.

AndyMc.....

Car_54 wrote: »

So we have a driver engaged in a high speed pursuit, without any relevant training, and the law allows him to take one hand off the wheel and make a phone call. Brilliant!

You do know that in extreme circumstances the police will allow untrained drivers to participate in pursuits?

Hermione_Granger

Car_54 wrote: »

So we have a driver engaged in a high speed pursuit, without any relevant training, and the law allows him to take one hand off the wheel and make a phone call. Brilliant!

Who (apart from you that is) mentioned a "high speed" pursuit?
It's quite possible to have a crime committed and for the suspected culprit to drive away at a speed well within the limit so as to not attract further attention.

If you saw a young child being forced into a car and it seemed obvious to you that something very dodgy was going on and that car then drove off, would you pull over gently to the side of the road, park up and switch off your engine before calling the police? or would you at least make an effort to see if you could follow the car and report what had happened to the police?

Car_54

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

Who (apart from you that is) mentioned a "high speed" pursuit?
It's quite possible to have a crime committed and for the suspected culprit to drive away at a speed well within the limit so as to not attract further attention.

Agreed, but the law doesn't distinguish. In practice, I'd imagine that if our pursuer/pursued were to cause havoc as a result of loss of control, he would more likely be charged with DD or CD rather than mobile phone use.