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Centurion07 said:
DervVW said:
Centurion07 said:
Seriously? His driving was so bad you wanted to call the police but didn't in case you were seen by the police? 
Seriously - Sorry to disappont you
kING. CALL.2. As mentioned above, if you're making an emergency call, it's ok. But even if it weren't, MAKE. THE. f
kING. CALL. I take it you were quite happy to have this muppet cause an accident because there was a small chance that you could've got into a teeny, insignificant amount of trouble by using your phone to report it (even though you couldn't)? By small I mean so small that there is no known scientific method of measuring it. In fact, I'm led to believe that numbers don't even go that low so as to be able to measure just how small that chance was.3. If the police were around to spot you using a phone, then they would've been able to spot the tool in the BMW as well.
Not sure I would. Its not that I am happy for this muppet to cause an accident, not happy at all. But I am also not getting points, fine, increased insurance costs on the off chance that they (the police) decide its easier just to procecute me rather than find a car that may well have gone by the time a police car gets to it.
So you judged that there was a high risk of a driver causing an accident on a busy motorway. You negated to act on your suspicions as you felt the arguably lesser risk of you getting caught using a phone was worth taking over preventing a possible motorway pile up or a single car accident?
We all see stupid drivers but I rarely feel concerned enough to report them (although I have done it once and it was a passenger who made the call, and he was real life plod at the time.)
How genuinely worried for the safety of others were you? Not enough to make the call obviously.
We all see stupid drivers but I rarely feel concerned enough to report them (although I have done it once and it was a passenger who made the call, and he was real life plod at the time.)
How genuinely worried for the safety of others were you? Not enough to make the call obviously.
As I understand it theres a quick form and an on the spot fine if caught on a mobile whilst driving. Same as speeding - here sign this or it goes to court.
To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
DervVW said:
As I understand it theres a quick form and an on the spot fine if caught on a mobile whilst driving. Same as speeding - here sign this or it goes to court.
To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
So I should have called in, as the majority here agree that this would have been the right thing to do.To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
I've called the police a number of times while driving (usually at speed). Like you I don't have hands free. It didn't occur to me they'd find me for it, nor on any occasion did they ask if I was on hands-free or have any way of knowing. One of these occasions was a very slow, close to stopped, lorry in the middle lane of a dark and wet m6. That wasn't actually an emergency but in my opinion and that of the call taker it had the potential to be one.
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