Mobile phones, in cars

[ayjay]

Just in case you've been asleep for the last couple of months or are unsure of what is allowed,

 

http://www.sussex.police.uk/campaigns/mobilephone.asp

[Elton]

Driving Without Due Care & Attention has been a criminal offence for many years. Using a mobile whilst driving would constitute driving without due care and attention.

 

This new law is an absolutely diabolical example of our government wasting millions of pounds of our money in a knee-jerk reaction and 'creating' a law that already existed.All they had to do was ask that the Police enforce the current laws.

 

Elton

[MrWiggly]

Amen to that ..

[Dan]

Elton:

Driving Without Due Care & Attention has been a criminal offence for many years. Using a mobile whilst driving would constitute driving without due care and attention.

 

 

Elton

I beg to disagree me'lud! There are times when it could be hard to prove driving without due care while using a mobile, so this wraps it up, like seat belts and other road safety issues we have come to accept. Having been nearly run off my bike by tw*ts in cars using phones (usually dialing, or were they txting?!)I have no prob with the law (until my phone rings of course! ) I get far more p*ssed off with the complaints from Councils/police that because drivers are slowing down their gatso's arent generating the income they expected so now they need more to pay for them

 

Theres no doubt in my mind that phones in cars are a distraction, I bet theres hardly a poster out there with phone and car who hasnt looked down to call a number or answer the phone, those few seconds could be someones life. Preach over!!

 

Dan

[nursejudy]

Its been great ignoring the phone whilst driving!!knowing its work.

 

But there is a new problem people have kept swerving to the side of the road with out indicating presumably to check their answerphones.

 

 

We are allowed £5 for our phones (well it is the NHS,only to be used in emergency)

But i have had to ring my answer phone 6 times and make calls to respond,that $5 will soon be spent.

judith

[Paul_D]

I have a hands free kit fitted to my works motor and I have to admit that if I need to check the address book or the like before making a call it's a very dangerous scenario indeed as far as attention to the road goes. Ban them I say, then I'll be incommunicado.

[nursejudy]

Work will not pay for hands free

i have amended my answerphone message to say

I may be driving or with a patient so leave a message etc...

there is nothing worse than having sterile gloves on about to do a dressing and th ephone rings ...answer it or ignore.

 

in th epetrol station there were 2 people from Orange trying to sell handsfree kits.they could not understand when i said it was great with out th ephone.

judy

[kendo]

it's not just phones,how many of you have been distracted in the past by tuning the radio or changing tapes?

[Elton]

Never understood why car manufacturers actively encourage smoking in cars, by fitting ashtrays...

[Colin Brett]

It seems that having a "Non hands free phone" switched on in your car is enough for the law to nab you.

So switch them off completely.

 

Colin