accidents "live" with car phone - anyone had this ?

[Benni]

Hello @ll,

with the large number of car phones -or mobile phones used in cars- I think the following scenarios must have happened :

A) you talk to someone who is driving, and all of a sudden there is screeching/crashing sound, then silence.

B) you talk to someone whilst driving, and have an accident while doing so.

This can happen with hands-free kits, so I do not intend to turn this thread into a "hands-free kit vs. handheld phone" discussion,

I am just curious if A or B has ever happened to anyone on PH ?

I imagine it must be worse if in scenario A you want to call again, but the "person is unavailable",

or in scenarion B you survived the accident and want to call back to relief the person you just talked to,

but your phone broke in the accident ?

[zakelwe]

Benni said:

Hello @ll,

with the large number of car phones -or mobile phones used in cars- I think the following scenarios must have happened :

A) you talk to someone who is driving, and all of a sudden there is screeching/crashing sound, then silence.

B) you talk to someone whilst driving, and have an accident while doing so.

This can happen with hands-free kits, so I do not intend to turn this thread into a "hands-free kit vs. handheld phone" discussion,

I am just curious if A or B has ever happened to anyone on PH ?

I imagine it must be worse if in scenario A you want to call again, but the "person is unavailable",

or in scenarion B you survived the accident and want to call back to relief the person you just talked to,

but your phone broke in the accident ?

Eh?

"This can happen with hands-free kits, so I do not intend to turn this thread into a "hands-free kit vs. handheld phone" discussion"

Thank heavens for small mercies. Why is this sort of thing preying on your mind? Go and see a shrink.

Andy

[Nolar Dog]

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

[sonic_2k_uk]

Nolar Dog said:

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

the female logic is finally kicking in then.

[moosepig]

sonic_2k_uk said:

Nolar Dog said:

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

the female logic is finally kicking in then.

[Nolar Dog]

sonic_2k_uk said:

Nolar Dog said:

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

the female logic is finally kicking in then.

I trust you realise I was joking. If not... to clarify.

[elster]

A friend is a Ambulance controller and they had a head on collision while on the radio, that wasn't very good apparently.

The ambulance crashed that is.

When he used to answer 999 calls he regularly got people after accidents. Some very nasty.

Edited by elster on Thursday 11th March 01:42

[sonic_2k_uk]

Nolar Dog said:

sonic_2k_uk said:

Nolar Dog said:

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

the female logic is finally kicking in then.

I trust you realise I was joking. If not... to clarify.

Of course and ditto, it's not really

[bga]

A few years ago I was talking to my dad when he was on hands free. He was stopped at a set of traffic lights when a skip lorry drove into the back of him. I heard a big crunch and then my dad say 'bd' so I figured he was ok. Car was knackered but dad was OK luckily

[jonesgm]

This thread brought back a memory of Cozy Powell he was on the phone when he crashed.. and found this on Wiki

"Cozy Powell died on April 5, 1998 following a car crash while driving his Saab 9000 at 104 mph in bad weather on the M4 motorway near Bristol. According to the BBC report, at the time of the crash, Powell's blood-alcohol reading was over the legal limit, he was not wearing a seatbelt, and he was talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone.[3]"

Hum, seems there where a few other factors which seemed to have played a part in the crash.

Edited by jonesgm on Thursday 11th March 07:57

[isee]

Nolar Dog said:

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

Ha!

I read somwhere that no plane (in civil aviation at least) has ever crashed whilst flying backwards.
Proof that flying backwards is in fact less dangerous.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

bga said:

A few years ago I was talking to my dad when he was on hands free. He was stopped at a set of traffic lights when a skip lorry drove into the back of him. I heard a big crunch and then my dad say 'bd' so I figured he was ok. Car was knackered but dad was OK luckily

I bet some fking moron, somewhere in a government building, still used that statistic to say "mobile phones cause accidents" though.

[Pkh72]

isee said:

Nolar Dog said:

I've never crashed whilst using a phone.
I've crashed whilst not using the phone.

Proof that driving whilst on the phone is in fact less dangerous.

Ha!

I read somwhere that no plane (in civil aviation at least) has ever crashed whilst flying backwards.
Proof that flying backwards is in fact less dangerous.

This is why i always sit at the rear of a plane, i've never heard of one reversing into a mountain side.

[ratbane]

jonesgm said:

This thread brought back a memory of Cozy Powell he was on the phone when he crashed.. and found this on Wiki

"Cozy Powell died on April 5, 1998 following a car crash while driving his Saab 9000 at 104 mph in bad weather on the M4 motorway near Bristol. According to the BBC report, at the time of the crash, Powell's blood-alcohol reading was over the legal limit, he was not wearing a seatbelt, and he was talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone.[3]"

Hum, seems there where a few other factors which seemed to have played a part in the crash.

Edited by jonesgm on Thursday 11th March 07:57

First thing I thought of too.

[daveparry]

I don't suppose there are any statistics to say if a woman with young kids in the back seats has more chance of having an accident???? In my view kids are too dangerous!

[The Wookie]

I was on the phone to a friend on hands free when he had a blowout in his Jag going around a slip road.

In typically cool BA pilot fashion, he gave a monotonic run through as it was happening along the lines of "blah blah.... oh hang on, something doesn't feel right... I've lost the back end... Wait I've got it... No I'm going round... <muffled crunch> Yep I've crashed... Hang on I'll give you a ring back in a bit, my doors stuck."

[off_again]

Was on the hands free kit once, stationary at a set of traffic lights. A car who wasnt looking smacked into the back of me - ok, it was low speed and his car came off the worst, but it was rather ironic!

[mrmr96]

The Wookie said:

I was on the phone to a friend on hands free when he had a blowout in his Jag going around a slip road.

In typically cool BA pilot fashion, he gave a monotonic run through as it was happening along the lines of "blah blah.... oh hang on, something doesn't feel right... I've lost the back end... Wait I've got it... No I'm going round... <muffled crunch> Yep I've crashed... Hang on I'll give you a ring back in a bit, my doors stuck."

Either that was the slowest most graceful oversteer moment ever, or you mate can talk really really fast!

[jshell]

Old colleague of mine was driving up to Aberdeen and stopped at some traffic hold-up. He looked in the rear view mirror to see some young girl in a Saxo, on the phone, hurtling towards him. He braced and she hit without touching the brakes. He heard later that she was speaking to her Mum and said something along the lines of 'I'm about to have a big crash'. I I think she lost her legs. His big Merc estate was 'totalled' and he had back problems for years due to impact. Feck!

[isee]

The Wookie said:

I was on the phone to a friend on hands free when he had a blowout in his Jag going around a slip road.

In typically cool BA pilot fashion, he gave a monotonic run through as it was happening along the lines of "blah blah.... oh hang on, something doesn't feel right... I've lost the back end... Wait I've got it... No I'm going round... <muffled crunch> Yep I've crashed... Hang on I'll give you a ring back in a bit, my doors stuck."

That is wicked! I love those scenarios. I was waiting to taxi in my little cessna once and the red arrows were taking off in groups of 3, one groups after the other. The very last "red" gets to about 50 feet in the air and starts leaving a black smoke trail.

The next thing I hear is him on the radio with cockpit alarms going mental in the background and he proceeds in a tone that would literally bore even a reveller on speed to sleep.
"Bournemouth tower, I have a bird strike, possible ingestion, going around."
there was a dialogue to follow and the fire engines have rushed to the runway. and the guy was always calm and measured. he then lands, still smoking and says on the radio, "I am just going to taxi back the the hangard and get antoher plane"

don't know who he was but the guy was ubercool.