Using phone handset whilst driving

only if they are partial to these...

Yeah, this is a serious thread... im out or I'll get in trouble again.

I reported a Sainsburys lorry driver back before Christmas for going through the lights at the junction of Islington High St/Pentonville Road/City Road on a mobile phone, all while turning from City Rd onto Islington High St. It's an incredibly busy ped junction if nothing else, one slip before Christmas while doing that and a few families Christmas may not be what they expected.

They eventually got back to me to tell me he'd been told off. I didn't bother reporting to the police, that seemed a bit excessive. I'd definitely do it again, but just wish these annoying private motorists who think they're above the law had numbers on the side to call too.

Yeah, this is a serious thread... im out or I'll get in trouble again.

poo, my bad.

@TheBrick(Tommy) I'm getting a bit bored of these...

Sorry carry on, mobiles, driving, the combination there of...

Errrrrrrrrrrr! Is that ^ a tick? Makes my flesh crawl.

I make it my business now whenever I see a driver talking on their mobiles to stop it by gesturing to put the phone down. Most do, but there's always some selfish cunt who thinks the laws don't apply to them. I had a good staring out competition last night with a woman driving her Audi whilst on her mobile. I was on foot and caught her eye, I gestured and then we had 2 mins of her trying to resist looking at me again while she held her phone in her lap and tried to pretend she wasn't using it. The fucking bitch!

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/16/texas-man-grabs-for-cellphone-drives-1m-bugatti-veyron-into-salt-marsh.html

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Bugatti Veyron being fished out of a lake[/ame]

Video of actual crash..
http://jalopnik.com/5404403/exclusive-video-of-bugatti-veyron-actually-crashing-into-texas-lake

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Yesterday spoke to two people using phones at the wheel. The first, a guy driving a medium sized Chelsea Tractor, seemed to take my hint.

The second, a spivvy dude in a sporty Bentley (that had just tore down a bus lane at the end of Grange Road at Tower Bridge Road in order to get through the lights before all the other single-occupancy cars clogging up the roads). Needless to say I caught up with him in my normal pace cos LO! he was stuck in another queue of single-occupant private vehicles just a hundred yards on.

I asked him to stop using his phone, and cited the 'four times more likely to cause an accident when using a handset' stat that appeared in the press recently...

He had the GALL to say... 'Excuse me, let me speak, but my mother's got cancer and that was her doctor I am talking to'!!! WHAT!? I mean, WHAAAAT!?

'ANND?' I said to him. 'Stop your car if you want to use a handset!'.

Fucking prick. I hate bentley drivers. They are ALL cunts, to a man.

Great excuse - was he 15 years old?

As we've alluded to before, since there are no traffic police anymore to enforce law (aside from rlj'ing cyclists) it is pretty much a free for all on the roads, I've really noticed this in the last year (I notice more when I'm in the van as I get to spend more time stationary/slow in traffic whereas on the bike I am concentrating more on staying away from vehicles rather than what their operators are doing)

As the government cannot afford/is not interested in any ad campaign to improve road use, what if everybody who wished there was a campaign paid for it themselves?

Is this viable? how much would it cost? a few million? there must be more than a few million law abiding road users who would donate £1. Starting with cyclists as they are the worst served.

Cos it's really not a case of just belly-aching and arguing and saying it's all motorists fault, it's all cyclist's fault etc..It's a case of making careless, arrogant and aggressive people accountable for their actions and the possible consequences.
Whether you ride a bike on the pavement, use a mobile when driving a car, or walk out into traffic without using a crossing, you are being a cunt and should at least be given the opportunity to realise your mistakes and change. For those that won't there should be the law.

A 10 second hard hitting ad in the middle of coronation st, saying give cyclists room when passing, another saying use the fucking green cross code, another saying donlt use a phone when driving etc..I don't mean some fancy arty shit that no-one understands or takes any notice of, you are targeting stupid people. Keep it simple, crashes, blood, death, loss and man with loud authorotative voice, not fucking dancing fucking bears.

Great excuse - was he 15 years old?

"My dog ate my hands-free"

I was driving recently when I came upon a cyclist of the nodder variety talking on the phone while weaving all over the road. I drove slowly behind him for fear of knocking him over while overtaking him. I wound down my window (OK, I pressed the button and the electricity stuff did the rest) and requested, firmly that he should desist from phoning while cycling. He, broke his call to deliver verbal abuse to me, and then returned to the matter in hand. I pressed my hand onto the horn of my car and rather interrupted his ever so important conversation.

Cyclists can also be tits.

When cycling I have been known to interrupt a call by poking my face through an open window and enquiring whether the call is worth more than my life.

When cycling I have been known to interrupt a call by poking my face through an open window and enquiring whether the call is worth more than my life.

I'm getting damn close to reaching in, snatching the phone and shouting YOINK.

Just wondering if this counts as theft or self-defence.

Cyclists can also be tits.

Yes they can but luckily they are not in charge of a 2 ton killing machine.

i fncking hate pram pushers on the phone, that gets right on my tits

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Yesterday spoke to two people using phones at the wheel. The first, a guy driving a medium sized Chelsea Tractor, seemed to take my hint.

The second, a spivvy dude in a sporty Bentley (that had just tore down a bus lane at the end of Grange Road at Tower Bridge Road in order to get through the lights before all the other single-occupancy cars clogging up the roads). Needless to say I caught up with him in my normal pace cos LO! he was stuck in another queue of single-occupant private vehicles just a hundred yards on.

I asked him to stop using his phone, and cited the 'four times more likely to cause an accident when using a handset' stat that appeared in the press recently...

He had the GALL to say... 'Excuse me, let me speak, but my mother's got cancer and that was her doctor I am talking to'!!! WHAT!? I mean, WHAAAAT!?

'ANND?' I said to him. 'Stop your car if you want to use a handset!'.

Fucking prick. I hate bentley drivers. They are ALL cunts, to a man.

So not only is his poor mother in bed dying, shes also getting the blame for his irresponsibility, what a nice guy.

Off Topic.... but as i watched the YYY's this weekend i asked an irish lumbermouth, to please STFU. To which i got the reply, "NO i won't i'm talking about my dead dad". What a cunt!

^ not really off topic, the same spurious logic that if you say something bad has happened that's about like death or cancer, people will suddenly say 'Oh OK carry on then, poor you, I am sorry'.

RPM's idea is really bloody good. Maybe take it to the Lorries campaign, Rob?

I agree that rpm's idea is good.

I do feel though, that he has underestimated the importance of dancing bears in getting our point heard.

or fucking bears

How about an ad with some people watching telly and being all like 'yeah whatever' about an ad they're watching telling them to be responsible, and then 3 bears burst into the room, each wearing a t-shirt with "give cyclists room when passing", "use the fucking green cross code", and "don't use a phone when driving", which then proceed to tear the uncaring telly viewers to pieces, and then have a hardcore bear fuckfest whilst rolling around in the human remains?

I would give you £1 for that.

+1 I'd put £1.50 in for that.

That's the creative side dealt with, now how to we buy the airtime?

bummpf £1
tommy £1.50
murtle £1

That's the creative side dealt with, now how to we buy the airtime?

Pft we don't need to buy the air time have you not seen Wayne's World?

Say I wanted to use my spare time to volunteer as one of them not-quite-police people you see doing fuck all around town. Were I to spend my time watching the roads in search of idiots using mobile phones whilst driving, would I be able to dish out fines?