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200 quid and 6 points? Do they want to stop this or just slow it down a bit? As above, £1000 fine, 12mths ban plus a re-test sounds good.
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17th September 2016, 17:45 | #32 |
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They can make as many rules and regulations as they like,but due to this governments obsession with cut backs there is nobody around to enforce them.
The only time i have seen a police car car in our town it's going to an incident that is already been committed. |
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Which one did you choose today Steve? Okay... rubbish joke. I'll
Good points made about cutbacks. More visible policing is needed!
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I reckon my idea would have an effect .
Take the name of the company on the vehicle . Email them or text them or when possible phone them . Eat away at them . People power. |
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I see them all the time on the A2/M2 in the morning and evening driving along chatting away on their phones but they are in newish top line Audi's and BMW's and other marques so you know they must have hands free but just can't bothered to use it I guess. Go figure. What are you gonna do. Annoys the hell out of me, I've been to my local Police station in Sittingbourne with reg numbers time and dates and just a shrug from the front desk, with a nothing we can do.
Maybe all fitting camera's in our cars and giving the videos in, May make a difference to our boys in blue!!!
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All we need now, are some Traffic Police to enforce it.
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lack of enforcement means that the penalty for getting caught is largely irrelevant. In fact as a risk assesment you' have a calculation e.g. 'chance of getting caught' = 1% multiplied by 'severity of punishment' where 1 is a police caution and 100 is life sentence = 3: so 1 x 3 = 3 : out of 10,000! so who cares? So for the majority of driving offences except speeding past a camera chance of getting caught is practically nil unless an accident causing 'serious' injury is involved. So it doesn't really matter unless the punishment is so severe like 5 years minimum prison sentence. (e.g. 30 on our 1 - 100 scale). Rant over. One thing I do do though, only if it wouldn't cause problems itself is to use my horn whenever I see a driver holding mobile phone to the side of their head: just to make sure that they are aware of my presence of course . (more so if I'm riding rather than driving as well). Save Save
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It's shocking to see people texting and driving. We wouldn't read a book whilst at the wheel so why a mobile? When I was in my early twenties, I was fiddling with the radio to find a station lost all attention on the road, result hit the curb; what if the car mounted it and people were there. Shook me up and from that day I always made sure the radio was set before setting off, thankfully technology has moved on with RDS etc. Now.
Mobiles you just get so involved your mind considers nothing else, let alone controlling a car at speed.
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