Driving listening to the radio...

[broccers]

.... with your arm out of the window on a hot day.

£30.00 fine ?

Is that or is it not exactly the same as driving along listening to your voicemail on your mobile phone ?

Discuss.

[vonhosen]

You can use your mobile with hands free.
Car radio is hands free isn't it ?

[vipers]

broccers said:

.... with your arm out of the window on a hot day. £30.00 fine ? Is that or is it not exactly the same as driving along listening to your voicemail on your mobile phone ? Discuss.

Just wondered what prompted the question?

[vonhosen]

vipers said:

broccers said: .... with your arm out of the window on a hot day. £30.00 fine ? Is that or is it not exactly the same as driving along listening to your voicemail on your mobile phone ? Discuss. Just wondered what prompted the question?

It'll soon be £60 & 3 points.

[pjskel]

Are you referring to driving "whilst not in full control of the vehicle"?
Have to say, it's not my preferred style - but as long as all the conditions permitted this without the vehicle moving about, then I suppose no harm done.
If it was lazy driving round a bend and so forth, then I'd be more inclined to think common-sense wasn't being applied.

[micky g]

Fecking nothing better to do bib - well done, they made our roads safer from irresponsible people like you.

It's this sort of prosecution that discredits both the police and the legal system.

Final word - w*nkers.

[vipers]

Maybe I missed something, did someone actually get pulled for this, ie arm out of window, the radio bit must surely be irrelevant!

[vonhosen]

vipers said:

Maybe I missed something, did someone actually get pulled for this, ie arm out of window, the radio bit must surely be irrelevant!

My reading of it (but perhaps I'm wrong) is that it's more likely that someone got a FPN for using their mobile phone & is asking why is that worse than listening to the radio with one hand on the wheel, while the other rests elsewhere.

[vipers]

vonhosen said:

vipers said: Maybe I missed something, did someone actually get pulled for this, ie arm out of window, the radio bit must surely be irrelevant! My reading of it (but perhaps I'm wrong) is that it's more likely that someone got a FPN for using their mobile phone & is asking why is that worse than listening to the radio with one hand on the wheel, while the other rests elsewhere.

Sounds likely, unless we are told otherwise, tks.