Dear Boris, Enough is enough!

they will not, however, stop the skip driver I passed this morning who had a mobile phone clamped to his ear as he narrowly avoided running over a commuter in full reflective garb who waiting patiently to turn right off a main road... being such an idiot. unbelievable.

Number of vulnerable road user increased dramatically in the past few years (vulnerable in the sense of not being enclosed in metals), so small offence such as using a telephone while driving should be deemed as a big offence when such judgement could easily lend to the death of a peds/cyclists.

Get rid of the £60 fixed penalty, and put in some real number, let says £500? or even £1,000 (with the usual 3 point fine), that WILL force them to think twice, £60 isn't much for the driver when they pay half that for fuel (whether £60 is a lots for us when caught RLJ),

After all I saw a policeman stopped a driver after he was caught using the phone, police fined him, he drove off and promptly got back on the phone, of course it's not exactly a proper solution to prevent HGV/cyclist incident, but netherless a small step in the right direction.