Texting While Driving - On the phone drivers!

I was walking to meet my daughter after school today and saw a twat driving an official Tour of Britain car through the town ( Bradford on Avon) - whilst looking and doing something on his phone. Would’ve been ironic if he’d knocked off a cyclist...

Report them to TOB

I know we all hate driving texters/ phone users. But how does everyone cope with seeing it .. all the time, and the futility of any reporting.

Like i'm a courier, so i'm on the road, every day, full time, so i see it, a LOT, like minimum 7 or 8 a day, either texting or driving while looking down at phone scrolling social media.

It boils my blood, whether i ignore it or say something (which 50% of the time kicks off a shouting match which also boils my blood)

besides being potential victim to these fucks, how it makes me feel seeing it day in day it is actively bad for my blood pressure/ mental health.

Someone I know on ig has just moved to Florida. He was in his first big tropical storm, driving on the highway, so obviously thought he should film it on the move for an ig story. So fucking stupid.

@lazysuperhero Yeah I see it all the time too. ALL the time. When I was working as a courier Id be almost surprised if I looked into someone’s vehicle and saw them NOT on their phone. It stresses me out because I have to share the road with these people, and more importantly my son and people I love have to as well. Makes me sad. Anyway, feel ya dude!

It's fucking annoying, I can see people driving past work with phones or doing the telltale look down if stopped in traffic, just drove somewhere myself and people in my mirror at lights are looking down the whole time, it's endemic. I guess you could camera up and report people, I often think about it but can never be bothered.

I hate it, to the point where I now mostly ride off road even though I suck at off road riding. Fuck being mowed down by some clown writing a text.

I watched someone drive into the back of stationary traffic on my commute the other day with their eyes in their lap

It simply cause it’s not enforceable, even thought it can be, nothing really been done.

Like doing 30 in a 20 zones, there’s always a couple of so doing it on your daily commute, sometimes dozen of times a day.

I feel the same way and I'm on the road a fraction of the time you are. Nearly got wiped out by some Qashqai cunt the other day, he was turning onto a busy road (by the KFC in Deptford), phone in hand face fucking buried in it. Shouted and cunt wasn't even bothered.

I've tapped a few windows when I've caught people in traffic in the past but I've stopped doing that, too many hair-trigger tempers and I don't want to get mowed down.

Check out Duncan Theaston on Twitter. Scotland has no online reporting, you have to have old bill come round to take a statement, he simply doesn't have time so as he cycles along he just films drivers fannying about with phones and asks them calmly to stop.

"I wasn't on the phone!"

say the drivers, with their phone in their hand.

It simply cause it’s not enforceable

In NYC there's a law against idling vehicles, fines starting at $350. And if you as a member of the public record and report the idling leading to a fine, you get a 25% cut.

I'm not one normally for vigilantism but put something like that in place for texting and shit would stop real quick.

Ah thanks for all the replies. Good to feel soothing group rant! Yeah Maybe one way to cope is to start carrying a gopro recording more consistently and reporting it even if it goes nowhere.

Also I feel that the rise of EVs which are all automatic has made phone scrolling easier for more people and more prevalent, no shifting gears frees up hand to just have phone in it all the time.

As a HGV driver I have a perfect sight line to exactly what the driver in front is upto, and so does my forward facing camera, which has an alert button, so if summat bad happens it flags up the recording so we don't have to scroll through the whole thing, I started to press the button, usually at lights when they go green and matey in front has no clue they've gone green because they are head down checking who loves them every chance they get, work asked me to stop as there were so many.
Best one we did actually send to GMP, I was in the middle lane of the M60, driver in front clearly not looking up, their speed was inconsistent, down to 50 upto 60, down again, I had to brake several times, I got bored of this cunt, flashed lights a few times, no joy, beeped the horn, still no joy, then the clever twat decided he needed to do a brake test on me, I kinda knew it was coming so was ready, he sped off, then his icing on the cake, clearly I was in the wrong, out of the window comes his right arm, in his hand? His phone! He's filming me in the middle lane, even had to rest his phone and hand on the roof of his car to adjust his grip.
The officer who phoned in reply to our report was actually laughing, as apparently the driver had denied this event ever happened.
Still waiting to see if I'm due in court, I doubt it, hope the cunt gets banned.
Lazysuperhero, I feel your pain, many many times on a daily occurrence.
Be safe everyone.

Qashqai qunt

FTFY

Confession time - I was caught texting at a red light yesterday. I rarely have done it in the past and certainly won’t from here on in. I’m an idiot.

Points?

Good. You scum! :)

I almost got run over at a ped crossing the other day by a driver who was approaching the light at a crawl speed while texting and he failed to see me - was about to roll straight over the white line into my dogs and I cause he was turning right on red.

$672 fine, 3 days suspension, 5 demerits.

Also I feel that the rise of EVs which are all automatic has made phone scrolling easier for more people and more prevalent, no shifting gears frees up hand to just have phone in it all the time.

This is such an easy way to spot texting drivers. Those driving manual but speed along for far too long without changing up a gear.

I very rarely drive but have some sympathy.

Texting (or using a handheld phone for whatever reason) while stationary at a red light isn't dangerous in the slightest if you're paying attention to when it's changing and are prepared to put it down immediately before setting off again.

If you need to get a quick message to someone I reckon it's safer than a completely legal hands-free call.

I was next to a van at some lights a few weeks ago and he was texting whilst crawling at a few mph. The lights changed and he started to speed up (still texting) but the motorbike in front of him stalled and he was millimeters from shunting the bike in the back. Checked my dashcam but he was level with me and it didn't pick it up unfortunately.

'Hey, Siri/Okay Google, message Mum using WhatsApp saying Hey, I am free at 8pm your time to speak on the phone. Let me now if that works.'

No hands required. No distracting phone call required.

Fair point. My sister often sends voice messages via whatsapp, presumably (hopefully) using the same method.

$672? That’s oddly specific.