Drivers caught rubbernecking
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Drivers caught using their mobile to record accidents on the M1 have been warned by the police.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonsh...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonsh...
ttery are even worse. How can people lining p shots through the side window be paying attention to the folks in front?The article is more about recording on your phone than rubbernecking per se.
So you're stuck in almost stationary traffic. You see something interesting, in this case lorries etc. and you record on your phone.
I fail to see the problem personally. You're in traffic. It's literally a matter of pushing a button and looking out of the window, until those two also result in written warnings I think this is a massive waste of time.
So you're stuck in almost stationary traffic. You see something interesting, in this case lorries etc. and you record on your phone.
I fail to see the problem personally. You're in traffic. It's literally a matter of pushing a button and looking out of the window, until those two also result in written warnings I think this is a massive waste of time.
Prof Prolapse said:
The article is more about recording on your phone than rubbernecking per se.
So you're stuck in almost stationary traffic. You see something interesting, in this case lorries etc. and you record on your phone.
I fail to see the problem personally. You're in traffic. It's literally a matter of pushing a button and looking out of the window, until those two also result in written warnings I think this is a massive waste of time.
Well I would agree with you if I hadn't read the article either.So you're stuck in almost stationary traffic. You see something interesting, in this case lorries etc. and you record on your phone.
I fail to see the problem personally. You're in traffic. It's literally a matter of pushing a button and looking out of the window, until those two also result in written warnings I think this is a massive waste of time.
It says "people who drove past an overturned lorry and slowed down to record what was happening"
They are slowing down TO record accidents, which can lead to other accidents.
illmonkey said:
Well I would agree with you if I hadn't read the article either.
It says "people who drove past an overturned lorry and slowed down to record what was happening"
They are slowing down TO record accidents, which can lead to other accidents.
I have read it. But it's not a single individual that causes the tail backs. Its a hundreds of people, it just happens that 80 or so were seen to be using a mobile phone.It says "people who drove past an overturned lorry and slowed down to record what was happening"
They are slowing down TO record accidents, which can lead to other accidents.
If it was perfectly clear then you could actually see individuals deliberately slowing the car down to use their phones (and subsequently slowing traffic) I would agree. From the images however this would not seem to be the case. Its bumper to bumper.
These individuals are simply singled out because they are on a phone. There will have been hundreds more that were simply gawking anyway. Which as I said is pretty much (sadly) unavoidable.
A few weeks ago there was a large crash on the opposite carriageway on the outside lane, I was on the outside lane of my carriageway when the car in front almost stopped (you could see them looking at the crash) nearly causing a crash, I honked, the car me behind honked, a couple of cars going past on the inside lane honked, this made me laugh a bit.
If I or the cars behind me had been tailgating/not concentrating there would have been another accident!
If I or the cars behind me had been tailgating/not concentrating there would have been another accident!
Prof Prolapse said:
illmonkey said:
Well I would agree with you if I hadn't read the article either.
It says "people who drove past an overturned lorry and slowed down to record what was happening"
They are slowing down TO record accidents, which can lead to other accidents.
I have read it. But it's not a single individual that causes the tail backs. Its a hundreds of people, it just happens that 80 or so were seen to be using a mobile phone.It says "people who drove past an overturned lorry and slowed down to record what was happening"
They are slowing down TO record accidents, which can lead to other accidents.
If it was perfectly clear then you could actually see individuals deliberately slowing the car down to use their phones (and subsequently slowing traffic) I would agree. From the images however this would not seem to be the case. Its bumper to bumper.
These individuals are simply singled out because they are on a phone. There will have been hundreds more that were simply gawking anyway. Which as I said is pretty much (sadly) unavoidable.
It doesn't look bumper to bumper, there is nothing in the lane the other side of them, there is also motion blur.
All it takes is 1 person to slow down to sub-motorway speeds in moving traffic to cause an accident.
I'll never understand why they don't simply erect high divides between the carriage ways to stop this very thing happening. If people can't see it, then they are not going to slow down to have a look, and it would pretty much put a stop to all the accidents the inevitably happen when rubberneckers slow down for a gawp.
illmonkey said:
ts generic footage. In the photos they took, you can only see the car and person, so they could be moving. There is only 1 that shows any part of the road, this one:
It doesn't look bumper to bumper, there is nothing in the lane the other side of them, there is also motion blur.
All it takes is 1 person to slow down to sub-motorway speeds in moving traffic to cause an accident.
Looking at it again you may be right. It doesn't look bumper to bumper, there is nothing in the lane the other side of them, there is also motion blur.
All it takes is 1 person to slow down to sub-motorway speeds in moving traffic to cause an accident.
I had just pictured a solid line of traffic with the odd person on a phone but admittedly there's nothing really to support this but irrelevant stock footage.
carlove said:
A few weeks ago there was a large crash on the opposite carriageway on the outside lane, I was on the outside lane of my carriageway when the car in front almost stopped (you could see them looking at the crash) ..., I honked...
A few years ago I had the similar reaction to a car in front almost stopping to gawp. Unfortunately for him there were Police on both sides of the carriageway and the one on the opposite (closed) carriageway saw what was happening and signalled for the slowing driver to pull over and have a chat with his colleague who was parked up on the hard shoulder on our side. 
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