Questions you'd ask... a driver on the phone?

[Pothole]

505diff said:

I had the pleasure yesterday of being on a daul carriageway in lane one at 35 miles an hour, in rush hour, with silly cow in lane two texting and weaving into my lane, while to my left an other woman on the phone in the slip road about to side swipe me as she was too busy to look up from her phone.

Even scarier when you're on a motorcycle with them doing that kind of thing! The only saving grace is I have the power instantly available to squirt through the gap and leave them to clang into each other if there's a gap ahead of me...

[WJNB]

[quote=Prizam]I recently took a coach from Oxford to London. Don't ask, it was a works thing. I hate coaches.
quote]

Mmm why the need to justify being on a coach?
You too afraid of how others will judge you?

[AdamIndy]

I'd like to ask the dhead in his van from today if his phone call was worth it. Wrote 3 cars off(not including his works van), put 2 people in hospital and left my dad injured and with no car to get my disabled mum around. I hope that is stood in the dole queue next week. wker!!

[Pothole]

AdamIndy said:

I'd like to ask the dhead in his van from today if his phone call was worth it. Wrote 3 cars off(not including his works van), put 2 people in hospital and left my dad injured and with no car to get my disabled mum around. I hope that is stood in the dole queue next week. wker!!

Devil's advocate would say that call was from his disabled mum saying his Dad has died, I suppose...Highly unlikely and nothing he could do about it anyway, so still not worth taking the call.

Nothing will change about peoples' behaviour until they too are touched by personal tragedy caused by this kind of irresponsibity.

[SEE YA]

AdamIndy said:

I'd like to ask the dhead in his van from today if his phone call was worth it. Wrote 3 cars off(not including his works van), put 2 people in hospital and left my dad injured and with no car to get my disabled mum around. I hope that is stood in the dole queue next week. wker!!

Best wishes to your Dad, Another example of people today Just do not care.

[swisstoni]

Pothole said:

Nothing will change about peoples' behaviour until they too are touched by personal tragedy caused by this kind of irresponsibity.

Or nicked.

[Rostfritt]

Pothole said:

Devil's advocate would say that call was from his disabled mum saying his Dad has died, I suppose...Highly unlikely and nothing he could do about it anyway, so still not worth taking the call.

Would he have known that before he answered? More likely he didn't want to lose any business by not answering the phone. Or his boss requires him to answer the phone if he calls, regardless of what he is doing.

[Nigel Worc's]

Rostfritt said:

Would he have known that before he answered? More likely he didn't want to lose any business by not answering the phone. Or his boss requires him to answer the phone if he calls, regardless of what he is doing.

I can't imagine any boss would require you to answer the phone regardless of what you were doing !

[AdamIndy]

SEE YA said:

AdamIndy said:

I'd like to ask the dhead in his van from today if his phone call was worth it. Wrote 3 cars off(not including his works van), put 2 people in hospital and left my dad injured and with no car to get my disabled mum around. I hope that is stood in the dole queue next week. wker!!

Best wishes to your Dad, Another example of people today Just do not care.

Thankyou, much appreciated.

Turns out the van driver was the bosses son. So looks like he won't be in the dole queue next week.

They are trying to wriggle saying the taxi driver ran into my dad before the van hit the taxi (behind my dad). Luckily enough my dad has a dashcam. Only pointing forward but you can clearly see he only had one whack. After seeing the footage myself, it was a fair shunt! Enough to break the back of his seat with the impact.

On a plus side(or minus, depends which way you look at it! ) he got his courtesy car delivered today, a Vauxhall mokka. He hates it already!

[Pothole]

swisstoni said:

Pothole said:

Nothing will change about peoples' behaviour until they too are touched by personal tragedy caused by this kind of irresponsibity.

Or nicked.

That often doesn't work. They will justify their actions and decide the police victimised them for some reason.

[Spitfire2]

Had a guy casually pull off into my path last night. Phone held to ear. Kept on chatting away despite a near miss that I had naturally made him aware of.

As above. In many cases they just don't give a toss.

[Janesy B]

Smart phones, stupid people. Great example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4SGdw0MkA

[LankyLegoHead]

It is particularly shocking on the M40, maybe a lot of self important people use that particular motorway? At least between me (J10) and London.

One thing I was wondering about... I now have an Apple Watch. Thats right, I'm a moron. Anyway, whats the legality about using these? It displays my texts and I do often glance at it. If the text is longer than a few words I don't read it. But if its a quick message I will. I can even, within two screen taps, send a pre-written message as a reply. Or, I can dictate one.

Personally, I find it a bit too distracting to dictate or even send a pre-written reply whilst on the move. I've done it in standstill traffic though I must admit.

Either way, staring at a screen rather than the road you're driving on is just retarded. Fortunately most of these accidents end up as minor bumps, but unfortunately (as someone else posted earlier) They've been directly attributed to deaths.

I would almost go as far as saying its more dangerous than speeding. Considering most peoples speeding, especially on the motorway, is around 90mph.

[veccy208]

I'm not very old yet but as I've 'grown up' I've noticed how important your concentration is on the road, especially a motorway. I've had a few hairy moments when I looked to check out a tractor in a field or a new house just for a split second and looked back to find the situation in front has totally changed and some extreme braking was required!
Now I always drive on a motorway thinking, 'If the car in front hit something, what happens me?'
Maybe just the results of having two of the most precious things/humans I've ever known in the car with me. Also makes me extremely angry to see bad driving. They could kill your wife, your son/daughter, mum/dad, brother/sister. That's the reality.

[AH33]

depends where it is, if its at traffic lights, how else am i supposed to change the spotify playlist?

[Rostfritt]

AH33 said:

depends where it is, if its at traffic lights, how else am i supposed to change the spotify playlist?

Set it up before you start driving?

On my daily commute I see plenty of people playing on their phones in traffic. They are quite easy to spot as they are still pissing about when the traffic starts moving and a huge gap opens up in front of them. One looked like he shat himself when a lorry blared his horn at him the other day and he looked up and couldn't even see the car in front.

[Pothole]

LankyLegoHead said:

It is particularly shocking on the M40, maybe a lot of self important people use that particular motorway? At least between me (J10) and London.

One thing I was wondering about... I now have an Apple Watch. Thats right, I'm a moron. Anyway, whats the legality about using these? It displays my texts and I do often glance at it. If the text is longer than a few words I don't read it. But if its a quick message I will. I can even, within two screen taps, send a pre-written message as a reply. Or, I can dictate one.

Personally, I find it a bit too distracting to dictate or even send a pre-written reply whilst on the move. I've done it in standstill traffic though I must admit.

Either way, staring at a screen rather than the road you're driving on is just retarded. Fortunately most of these accidents end up as minor bumps, but unfortunately (as someone else posted earlier) They've been directly attributed to deaths.

I would almost go as far as saying its more dangerous than speeding. Considering most peoples speeding, especially on the motorway, is around 90mph.

Dunno, still qualifies as a hand held device, probably.