Mufasa

Boo! hiss! sh!tbags, got stopped for driving while talking on my mobile. producer, £30 fine, non endorsable tho

PC said, "Using a mobile phone while driving in now an offence".
I said, "Really? I thought you had to prove I was driving without due care, dangerously or whatever".

PC "Nah".

It was written on the ticket as code 307 I think, "Driving while not in proper control of vehicle". If it's now a separate offence, why not code xxx "Driving while on the phone?"

Before you all condemn me as a child squashing menace to society, I was not negotiating a roundabout sideways while eating a Macdonald's and sending a text message. This was in a diesel 309, 30 limit at 20mph, light traffic, wide straight bit of road, and my mum is speed dial number 2!

pslewis

GOOOOD!!!

I wish EVERYONE who chats on the phone while in a moving vehicle gets DONE well and truly!!

Pete

However, Pembrokeshire in Winter - must be EMPTY, so maybe you were safe!!

We go to Pembrokeshire every summer, why is it at 7pm EVERYWHERE is EMPTY??



[Edited by pslewis - 12/14/2002 12:05:12 AM]

Mufasa

Anyone that can't drive one handed for a bit shouldn't have a license! Anyway I'm not looking for sympathy I just want to know is it a separate offence?

Merry Christmas Pete!

Mufasa

Wasn't in Pembs was near Twickenham

pslewis

Its NOT a seperate offence by the way - oh, Happy Xmas!!

Pete

Mufasa

Because the SAGA busses leave at 6:30pm.

Which bit of Pembs do you bless with your presence?

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Not condoning the use of mobiles while driving, but why is using a phone any different to smoking in a car? I've never heard anybody being stopped for this.

father_jack

So you tried to talk them up to doing you for a dangerous driving, but they weren't having it. The bast@rds :irony mode on:

beamer

stopping on the road to take a call should be an offence!!
ie:- holding up traffic
could this be worse???

Mufasa

I tried to get him to tell me what I had done other than use the phone!

Luke

So how come Police are allowed to use their radios whilst driving??
many a tv doc ,where the car is giving chase and the driver is holding his radio ...
ONE LAW FOR THEM AND ONE FOR US....

P1Fanatic

Even as a non-smoker (well not **** anyways ) I dont see the comparison. Speaking on a phone takes a hell of a lot more effort and requires several different senses than smoking a cigarette. Next youll be doing people for picking their noses.

Simon.

P1Fanatic

Erm cos they are chasing criminals or attending an emergency. Your mobile phone call doesnt quite have the same importance does it?

Luke

"Erm cos they are chasing criminals or attending an emergency. Your mobile phone call doesnt quite have the same importance does it? "


They are driving with hardly any training..At much faster speeds than (Most!!) of us..Driving on the wrong side of the road etc.And this requires more attention than Normal driving. They are subject to the law as well!!Also why no hands free units in the cars??

David Lock

Smoking and driving..... erm reminds me of that old classic....

Trucker driving down motorway middle lane when biker in fast lane rides up along side and bangs on truck driver's door. Trucker winds down window and biker shouts "thanks pal, can you give me a light?", half standing up with unlit *** in mouth. To which trucker duly obliges and shouts to biker "You're bloody crazy - you know you're gonna kill yourself one day" Biker replies "I doubt it mate, I only smoke two a week......"

Scooby Snax

Unlucky!

They should stop people reading maps while driving not using the phone. The amount of times i see a trucker reading a map WTF!!!!

camk

What about punters eating or who are just **** drivers, sorry its all too specific for me, the problem is that the police get pushed towards concentrating on specific 'offences'. They should just get out there and capture crap driving, cutting the lights, pulling in at traffic works, tailgating, too slow in outside lane, fog lights,no indicators,no lights in the fog(aaaarrrggghhhh).

Cheers
Cammy