Police officer caught on phone while driving
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A woman police officer has been fined £30 and faces disciplinary action for using her mobile phone while driving a marked police car.
The unnamed officer was reported by a member of the public as she drove past Merseyside police headquarters.
Full story here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3498764.stm
The unnamed officer was reported by a member of the public as she drove past Merseyside police headquarters.
Full story here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3498764.stm
pesty said:
A woman police officer has been fined £30 and faces disciplinary action for using her mobile phone while driving a marked police car.
The unnamed officer was reported by a member of the public as she drove past Merseyside police headquarters.
Full story here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3498764.stm
Casual (and deliberate) observation suggests to me that the worst offenders are (in rough order of frequency and unscientific):
* white van men;
* tradesmen (e.g. plumbers, electricians);
* those driving "service supply" vehicles (e.g. local electricity boards, British Gas);
* women;
* taxi/private hire drivers.
Streaky
* white van men;
* tradesmen (e.g. plumbers, electricians);
* those driving "service supply" vehicles (e.g. local electricity boards, British Gas);
* women;
* taxi/private hire drivers.
Streaky
streaky said:
Casual (and deliberate) observation suggests to me that the worst offenders are (in rough order of frequency and unscientific):
* white van men;
* tradesmen (e.g. plumbers, electricians);
* those driving "service supply" vehicles (e.g. local electricity boards, British Gas);
* women;
* taxi/private hire drivers.
Streaky
Exactly the same here in germany, whereby whitevan man and tradesmen are the same group here, then the gassing wimmin.........
streaky said:
Casual (and deliberate) observation suggests to me that the worst offenders are (in rough order of frequency and unscientific):
* white van men;
Streaky
Also, as an unscientific white van man, and being higher up I see a lot of ordinary car drivers on the phone. More than vans etc. Probably because I am trying to avoid them as they are all over the place
pesty said:
A woman police officer has been fined £30 and faces disciplinary action for using her mobile phone while driving a marked police car.
The unnamed officer was reported by a member of the public as she drove past Merseyside police headquarters.
Full story here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3498764.stm
This is being covered in Generals, but in my view she deserved it, if you uphold the law, you abide by it.
stooz said:
I don't have a problem, unless it was a personal call. they are trained drivers. unlike the majority of car users on the road (30 minutes in a housing estate doing 3 point turns is not training/testing)
Where does it say she was a trained driver? It is more likely she was a normal beat policewoman. Deserves it in my book.
On the subject of mobile phones I (and my family) were nearly wiped out by an a
in a VW Toerag yesterday. I was driving up the main street through my town, loads of pedestrians around when this Toerag comes round a corner towards me, almost half of his car was my side of the road, I could not go on the pavement because of pedestrians, all I could do was get as far in as possible whilst flashing the lights. Absolutely no reaction at all - he was holding and chatting on his mobile phone. He missed my car (wife's Pug206) by about 10cm.
in a VW Toerag yesterday. I was driving up the main street through my town, loads of pedestrians around when this Toerag comes round a corner towards me, almost half of his car was my side of the road, I could not go on the pavement because of pedestrians, all I could do was get as far in as possible whilst flashing the lights. Absolutely no reaction at all - he was holding and chatting on his mobile phone. He missed my car (wife's Pug206) by about 10cm.reanimate said:
It was legal for years it doesn't suddenly turn dangerous overnight.
The leader column in my local paper today says that a £30 fine isn't enough. It should be £1000 and confiscation of the phone. Isn't it amazing that what used to be perfectly legal is now not just illegal but perceived to be terrible? Police are talking up the "antisocial as drink driving" message for this, just as with speeding.
Peter Ward said:
It was legal for years it doesn't suddenly turn dangerous overnight.
The leader column in my local paper today says that a £30 fine isn't enough. It should be £1000 and confiscation of the phone. Isn't it amazing that what used to be perfectly legal is now not just illegal but perceived to be terrible? Police are talking up the "antisocial as drink driving" message for this, just as with speeding.
Well it sounds to me Peter as if the leader writer at your local paper is an extremist twerp, and if he was twice as bright he'd still only be a half wit.
I have already said this elsewhere, but this mobile phone law introduced on 1 December last year (and which I have not yet contravened) is IMHO an over-reaction to a problem for which the police already had quite sufficient powers.
Yet another all-embracing restriction has been applied in response to behaviour that is alleged to have caused 20 deaths over a period of approximately 15 years, against a probable total of about 50,000 deaths from road accidents in general over the same period.
It therefore can not possibly make a meaningful contribution to improving our overall road safety performance.
I am not surprised that a significant proportion of drivers seem inclined to disregard the new law.
Those who are able to use a mobile phone carefully in suitable circumstances should be free to do so, and those who do not feel able to cope thus will presumably desist.
Best wishes all.
Dave.
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