Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

I've occasionally wanted such a thing when I've put something heavy enough on the passenger seat to trigger the seat occupied sensor.

Have you considered using the existing seat belt? Just loop it under whatever you're putting on the passenger seat and click it in, problem solved.

That's what I did but something without a belt attached would have been easier.

I can imagine if I was something like a Hermes courier using my car to deliver parcels it might be a big enough nuisance that I'd buy a spare buckle.

If you’d ever seen the results of loose objects inside a car after a crash you’d think about securing that heavy object. Seatbelts help. If you can’t secure it wear a helmet.

You are right, I don't make a habit of it transporting goods on seats partly for that reason. On the other hand I have a people carrier which doesn't really separate the boot and luggage from people.

Thought I was videoing but it was just a single shot and so I don't have the number plate so I can't report it, but what a silly twunt.

He didn't notice me standing there for a full 5 seconds and I had to tap on the window to get his attention. His face was a picture when he realised what I was doing.

I think he also tried to pull over but changed his mind as maybe he saw I was walking along with my 11yo daughter.

Hopefully it's enough to make him think twice about doing it in the future, but I doubt it.

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Who's the lady in red?

Scooter rider, who also beeped at him as they passed by.

Check the mirror.

#cuntplates

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#cuntcar

#cuntdriver

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Is there a magic way to get a case update from the Met? I've reported various things over the last ~18 months and never heard anything. Am I wasting my time filling out the police web forms?

Hyundai Ioniq 5 drivers: the next generation of Qashqai cunt? Discuss.

Have tried UTFS but can’t find that link to roadsafe reporting a careless (no, dangerous) driver. Anyone have that?

https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/rti/rti-beta-2.1/report-a-road-traffic-incident/

When reporting make sure you include in your statement how it made you feel. There might be more chance of the case progressing if the victim was worried/frightened etc.

Thanks both.
I’m in Oxfordshire so it’s Thames Valley’s patch.
They have an online thingy, which when completed told me ‘nope, nothing to see here, move along son’ as I have no filmed evidence.
I know the car - actually remembered the reg - so might try and email them anyhow and explain how dangerous a move it was.
I guess if the same driver crops you again at least they’ll be on record.

Couldn't think where else to post this. Depressing reading...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/king-bbc-northamptonshire-panorama-durham-b977026.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-60002624

Forgive the Instagram link but lmao: https://www.instagram.com/nickelpotter/p/CZDo6v_tuMb/?utm_medium=copy_link

Reported a taxi for clearly using/having a mobile phone in the lap, MET comes back and says prosecution unlikely - I ask why and am told it's required to prove use as a communication device.

The current gov.uk website says it's illegal to hold a mobile phone while driving, nothing about communication devices - https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law

Anyone know why they won't pursue?

Apparently fingering a maps app or playing flappy birds offline is ok.
It's only making a call that's dangerous obviously

Edit. Too slow.

Am I being particularly dense?

“communication device”

Is that not the same thing as a

“mobile phone”

Or does ‘the law’ have specific clauses related to megaphone, semaphore, telegraph, smoke signal, etc?

offline is ok

Of course. Makes sense. Because we always are… right?

Anyone know why they won't pursue?

They're understaffed, undertrained, underfunded, lazy, shit, ineffective, racist, bigotted?

Pick a few.

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003
Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

1. The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) are amended by inserting after regulation 109—
   “Mobile telephones
   110.—(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a road if he is using—
   (a)a hand-held mobile telephone; or
   (b)a hand-held device of a kind specified in paragraph (4).
   .
   (4) A device referred to in paragraphs (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3)(b) is a device, other than a two-way radio, which performs an interactive communication function by transmitting and receiving data.
   
   

Arguably, any mobile phone is constantly sending data back & forth, but plod doesn't understand this.

Every flappy bird game is interactively sending & receiving stuff.