Tuesday 24th June 2003

Mobile Phone Fines Announced

Fines from £30 to £1000 and points on your licence

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[lucozade]

Just typical. If we can't educate the public then we may as well invent more ways to tax them.

LABOUR SCUMBAGS.

[JonRB]

Try to keep up.

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=45301

[wob]

It's hardly a tax unless you're using a mobile in the car, and then I don't think there's many PH'ers who wouldn't think you're a stupid tw*t who deserves a fine? Scumbags they may be, but this one seems reasonably sane to me.

I admit that hands free sets is more of a grey area, but it doesn't sound like they'll be using the same law to nab people doing that anyway. After all, there are lots of other things in a car to distract the driver if they put their minds to it. I wonder if many iDrive users have been done for careless driving yet?

[jax]

I wish to understand why in some locations it is illegal to use an earpiece whilst driving and therefore possible to receive on the spot fines.. I totally agree with the new legislation disenabling the use of individuals holding there phone to their ear, however I wish that the Department Of Transport would make this much clearer in English Terms and that this is consistent throughout the UK.. Can anyone shed any light???????

[swilly]

Considering numpties cant drive properly even with the oppurtunity to use both hands and fully concentrate on the task at hand, addind a distraction like a mobile phone, to the melting pot is just another recipe for disaster.

Ban mobile phones in general, in car or out, as they are vermin

[woof]

my take on this is that you might as well ban smoking in cars, eating, turning round and talking to your mates in the back seat. In fact ban kids from cars - coz they are always causing distrations.

[daver]

Don't ban hot totty from walking down the pavement wearing very little though. How distracting is that? I love summer.

[Richard C]

wob said:

Scumbags they may be, but this one seems reasonably sane to me.

Trouble is wob that you are a reasonable man. And assume the other side will be too. However the police are not allowed to be in their search for revenue. I got nicked in Birmingham on the M6 for using a mobile in a traffic jam when stationary. I have heard of someone being nicked drinking at a traffic lights. At the moment its not a specific offence but few including me will go to court to argue the £ 30. And its a nice l'il earner. If the points weren't there it would be the same with speeding. But with the points on phones the stakes are upped and more will contest it.

Bl@@dy F@@ls.

[simon5480]

Why is it everytime there is a problem that requires sorting by labour the cost have to come out of "Joe Publics" pocket. Of course usijng a mobile is dangerous but why does labout take the same old line every time it just proves they want our money but are not prepared to spend on anything logical.

[gh0st]

simon5480 said:

Why is it everytime there is a problem that requires sorting by labour the cost have to come out of "Joe Publics" pocket. Of course usijng a mobile is dangerous but why does labout take the same old line every time it just proves they want our money but are not prepared to spend on anything logical.

Because they are ts

[Noodles 4.2]

At last. I agree with the points. People that use their phones whilst driving are 2@'s anyway. These people have no right to put my life at risk.

Tony

[chickensoup]

A little draconian that you risk £970 if you wish to tell the beak that your talking on a phone in stationary traffic etc was not a reasonable catch. More bloody idiots swerving on to the side of the road when their phone goes off

[simon5480]

What I find odd is how they can sort this important issue but have to take an Ambulance driver to court to sort another, the only thing here is the revenue expect then to be out in force

[apache]

Noodles 4.2 said:

At last. I agree with the points. People that use their phones whilst driving are 2@'s anyway. These people have no right to put my life at risk. Tony

A bit OTT tony? what about people tuning a car radio, changing a CD, talking to a passenger, lighting a fag, scratching arse etc etc? If you are an inept numpty incapable of doing more than one thing at once then no amount of overbearing, interfering, nanny state legislation is gonna stop you from being one.

edited to add, that wasn't aimed at you btw


>> Edited by apache on Saturday 28th June 22:52

[inmate]

dont the police use radio microphones in their cars?

[rrussell29]

I wonder what they are going to do about the loads of innocent people that are killed by Police Cars going about their business?

Does anyone know the stats, strangely they are difficult to obtain?

Cheers RichieR

[dandarez]

>my take on this is that you might as well ban smoking in cars, eating, turning round and talking to your mates in the back seat. In fact ban kids from cars - coz they are always causing distrations.<


I hope to f...s sake u are not approaching me when u are turning round and talking to your mates in the back!!!!

The Blair cronies wont ever get my vote but they are right on this one - just too bloody late and even now it wont come in until Dec (it might be one of u - think slowly about this!! - between now and December that finds one of these dim fuc...rs losing control and taking u out with him/her). Those who argue against this are idiots, just like those who use mobiles whilst driving. The arguments like 'might has well ban lighting a fag, changing a CD, having a sandwich don't hold water. I regularly encounter twats trying to steer round sharp blind bends with one hand, mobile in other, trying to listen/talk (ie: their concentration on the road has totally gone- i've even encountered mobilers have full scale row - prob boss saying 'what the f... are u doing there, u should've been back at the depot by now'). You don't get that kind of distraction eating a sarnie and it doesn't make you lose concentration, neither does changing a CD (I grant you only one hand is on the wheel, BUT your eyes can still be on the road and the MIND - what these prats haven't got - can still be concentrating on what matters). How often do u see someone driving round a roundabout while trying to change a CD or eating a sarnie? Poss occasionally. I see twats on phones doing ta one-handed steer round roundabouts DAILY now!
Enough is enough. I do not want to meet one head on, side on whatever. Enjoying driving is fast becoming bloody hard as it is.
Its bad enough seeing prats 'walking' everywhere with their hand glued to their lugole, but in a vehicle... NO.
I like to drive fast - SAFELY!! Get rid of mobiles in cars even if u can't get rid of the twats that use them.