how many DEEKheads do you see on the phone while driving...

[mwep201081]

There was a news report on it a few years back. The old bill pulled some chap over for suspected mobile phone use.

He vehemently protested his innocence, but it turned out he had a hand held electric razor and was having a shave on the way to work!!

[Bellend]

Everything's a distraction when you're driving, changing the radio station, talking to your passengers, turning round to tell the kids to put their bloody seatbelt on, billboards, weird looking people walking by.

Honestly if you can't handle a collective of tasks don't drive.

I've driven on the phone once on a quiet motorway. Found I wasn't concentrating as much on the road. Far more then any of the above.

[luke]

i've got an aux cable in my stereo, if someone rings i just say answer and boom, in conversation..

[robiwill]

As I travel the A1M between Peterborough and huntingdon every day (for those that dont know it its a 4 lane stretch of motorway which is pretty much dead straight for approx 15 to 20 miles,

seen people reading books, maps, newspapers.
women applying makeup
HGV drivers on mobiles

etc etc

I feel mobile phone use being banned is very big brother I know its a distraction but lets be honest eating drinking smoking, changing the radio channel changing a cd is just as bad.

When it was legal to use a mobile I did drive using my phone just used sense ie comming up to a roundabout or junction put the phone down simples

After all its not ilegal in America or wasnt last time I checked.

[the dude]

Yeah it annoys me too but the police have probably been told to concentrate on bigger things.

I haven't been told that, ticket every last one of them, only takes about 2 minutes to issue a ticket.

[fishnchipsx2]

I use the phone in the car fairly often, if there's no passenger to take it for me.  Like f**k am I gonna mess around with pulling into a service station to take a call when I can do it on the move.

People like to overreact towards other road users. 

[kempie]

look if you own the brain capacity to multi-task, then you might have the skills to talk on your phone, but 99% of people i've seen drive on the phone are either using 2 lanes at the same time, driving at 20mph, or are picking there noes with the other finger

tbh the driving test is way too easy for people nowadays, and they are way to may people out on the road that shouldnt be in control of complex machinary like bicycles never mind cars!

[rob.043]

look if you own the brain capacity to multi-task, then you might have the skills to talk on your phone, but 99% of people i've seen drive on the phone are either using 2 lanes at the same time, driving at 20mph, or are picking there noes with the other finger

tbh the driving test is way too easy for people nowadays, and they are way to may people out on the road that shouldnt be in control of complex machinary like bicycles never mind cars!

driving whilst using a phone could be added to the test, if you can maintain control, your licence then allows you to use the phone when driving!

[bored_Welsh_lad]

I've spent months and months travelling from north to south most weekends and use my phone.. Don't see any issue with it tbh, but now I have a radio with satnav and built in bluetooth to install, just so the cops can't say owt!

[MrBounce]

Was walking home from work today and there's a junction I have to cross. It was a bit jammed up today so traffic was moving slowly. Renault Clio creeping forward occasionally then leaving large gaps to the car in front (20-30feet at least). Almost causes two accidents whilst creeping out of lane - yup, teenage girl texting on her pink phone paying no attention whatsoever.

She needs to attend the aftermath of a crash like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=505k3YCc7Bw&feature=fvst

"It will never happen to me" is the usual excuse people use to themselves...