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Even without being on her phone she shouldn’t have been overtaking a cyclist on the corner. Typical of today’s driving standards I’m afraid.
I see drivers on the phone all the time but very rarely see a police car so it’s no wonder they get away with it.
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If i could charge each driver a tenner seen on their phone
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My wife also. I am waiting for one of the idiots to give chase for a lesson in when not to use a mobile phone.
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The law permits driving while using hands-free devices. Should the installation of hands-free now be a requirement of the MoT test? Would that driver have driven as badly with hands-free, or was it the case that she was concentrating on her conversation, not her driving? If so, hands-free would not have made a difference in this instance.
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The law does permit use of hands-free devices, but the law is being abused to such an extent it needs to be changed to not at all, and signal jammers made an MOT requirement.
Not only would that stop people concentrating on a call instead of the road, it would stop them looking at the screen while texting or using the internet. If the OPs oncoming 'driver' had no phone in the car, that would be one distraction less, and a very good chance that the incident wouldn't have happened. I cannot understand why people have such a dependency on mobile phones, being immediately contactable really isn't that important, especially while in charge of a moving vehicle.
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Best piece of advice my father gave me when I took to the roads is what was drummed into him when training as a traffic police officer "treat everybody else on the road as an idiot". Follow that and you won't go far wrong, it has held me in good stead.
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Glad you made it, the trouble is apart from bad driving there is an "elephant in the room" and that is the increase of drug taking in our society- forget booze, cocaine use by all conditions of the population and they drive is a norm. And they feel they are "bullet proof" Chris S.
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