Rubbernecking Feckers fined

[Mutley]

covboy said:

Cliftonite said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20851775

There's an echo in here

An echo you say??

Thanks for the link, thing is, I'm yet to see screens at an accident.

[Mk3Spitfire]

Mutley said:

An echo you say??

Thanks for the link, thing is, I'm yet to see screens at an accident.

There would be a couple of problems with screens at accidents. Size/transportation of them, and then the fact that it's a great big surface area which will act like a sail to weather conditions and passing traffic. I'm sure they can come up with something, but it's got its challenges.

[herewego]

Mk3Spitfire said:

Mutley said:

An echo you say??

Thanks for the link, thing is, I'm yet to see screens at an accident.

There would be a couple of problems with screens at accidents. Size/transportation of them, and then the fact that it's a great big surface area which will act like a sail to weather conditions and passing traffic. I'm sure they can come up with something, but it's got its challenges.

Maybe easier to put up a very obvious camera facing the rubbernecking traffic.

[paintman]

Good. Really used to piss me off when I was still in the job & still does. Particularly as it causes a bottle neck for traffic travelling in the opposite direction & frequently another collision on the other carriageway.
A fake head with blood & bits hanging down was a serious temptation....

[Derek Smith]

A motorcyclist had lost it and had skidded under the rear wheels of an artic trailer. Part of his helmet was crushed.The head had been caught between the rear tyres and the body was lifted, only being ejected by the trailer body. It came out sideways.

An off duty PC attended the scene, was physically sick, and then, after getting someone to go to a hotel to call the police (pre mobile phones) he had to physically push people back from the scene.

Police arrived quickly, there was a nearby patrol van, and the PC turned for a bit of a rest and saw a child, of around 7 years, being held aloft by daddy in order to get a clear view.

Thought I'd share that.

[Mr Taxpayer]

I don't like rubberneckers either or the delays they cause, but I can't help thinking that NIck Freeman would tear this one apart. 'Charged with using a mobile phone'? No, they were using a camera and it's not illegal to take photographs of anything or anyone in a public place and there's rafts of case law to support that. Freeman got Jimmy Carr off a 'using a mobile phone charge' because he had been using the device's speech recording function when they stopped him. The Police could not show to the court that Carr had accessed or used any of the telephone functions at the time of the alleged offence.

Failing to be in proper control of the vehicle charges might be trickier to fight.

[anonymous-user]

Mr Taxpayer said:

Failing to be in proper control of the vehicle charges might be trickier to fight.

And this is where it could fall down, I don't know how they 'recorded' the 'misdemeanours' but if it was video it could quite clearly show the driver using a 'photographic device' and driving perfectly well are they then 'not in proper control'?

Anyway it wouldn't have made a joy of difference in the 'Scooby feck up' as you had passengers hanging out of the windows filming whilst the driver crawled past instead of cracking on.

[Dog Star]

herewego said:

Maybe easier to put up a very obvious camera facing the rubbernecking traffic.

That's a good idea - even if it's a dummy the sort of thick tts that rubberneck would st their pants.

There was a crash on the other carriageway of the M62 last summer and of course everyone, of course, on my side was slowing down, bunching etc. I was on my motorbike so was filtering past and I got opposite the accident. The car in the right hand land, a C Max with a family of fatties on board, actually STOPPED dead in lane 3 so they could have a look. A swift rap on their passenger window made them jump. WTF is wrong with people?