The worst bit of luck?

[glojo]

Last year there was a fatality down here where a woman was talking on her mobile phone and walked off the footpath, directly into the path of a lorry.

My wife has just come home in a very mild state of shock as a woman who once more was on a mobile phone, walked out directly in front of her. Luckily my wife was paying attention and the good old SBC brakes done the bizz and this lady lives to talk another day. Thankfully my car is untouched

We can introduce law, after law after law after law, but we cannot legislate for idiots.

The subject of this thread thankfully was in the process of remdying his unlawful habit and to me any punishment should be designed to at least attempt to 'reform.' Our law makers will always say they are NOT in the business of punishment the intent is to reform and teach law breakers the error of their ways??

regards
John

 

[st13phil]

i keep my mobile in the boot for this reason.

As do I - if I remember - but then more often than not I find I don't have it when I need it outside the the car because I left it locked in the boot

What ridiculous extremes we have to go to so as to ensure we can't be wrongly accused of an offence which the law has made impossible for us to defend ourselves against.

 

[BTB 500]

I deliberately picked a standard cradle rather than a bluetooth one so (a) the phone gets charged and (b) no worries about accidentally 'holding' it.

 

[st13phil]

I deliberately picked a standard cradle rather than a bluetooth one so (a) the phone gets charged and (b) no worries about accidentally 'holding' it.

So, when you get accused of using a hand-held phone while driving your protestations that you weren't because "look, officer, it's in a cradle in the car" can (and probably will) be met with "that's no defence: you could have put it in the cradle in the time between me seeing you committing the offence and me talking to you now".

And don't think it couldn't happen, because it already has. That'll be 3 points on your licence and a fine thank you very much, sir.

 

[BTB 500]

So, when you get accused of using a hand-held phone while driving your protestations that you weren't because "look, officer, it's in a cradle in the car" can (and probably will) be met with "that's no defence: you could have put it in the cradle in the time between me seeing you committing the offence and me talking to you now".

And don't think it couldn't happen, because it already has. That'll be 3 points on your licence and a fine thank you very much, sir.

So on that basis you should lock the road atlas in the boot too, in case you're accused of having that open on your lap when you didn't? Etc.

 

[crockers]

The answer is to have a Bluetooth kit with the phone in the boot... scratch your ear and get pulled .... then ask the officer to explain how you managed to use the phone which is in the boot...hmmm...

answer...


3 pts for driving with one hand....and scratching your ear in a disorderly fashion..

 

[st13phil]

So on that basis you should lock the road atlas in the boot too, in case you're accused of having that open on your lap when you didn't? Etc.

We're not far from that stage

 

[xpc316e]

I noted that somebody stated that the driver in the original post should have been let off, as he was about to change his habits. I say that he was correctly dealt with: had he been merely warned, this thread would never have been posted and consequently plenty of people would not have been caused to think twice about their own future phone usage.

QED