Put the Bloody Phone Down!

Quite often, I see people talking on their hand-held mobile phones while driving - sometimes in large vehicles.

This irritates me.

But at least they are looking out of their windscreens.

I've never seen anyone texting while driving but I know it happens.

This infuriates me and worries me.

According to this Autoguide story, a recent survey found that 69 percent of American drivers found texters the most aggravating, while the tailgater received 60 percent of the responses. Odd that the top two annoyances cover 139% of those responding.  Even odder is their choice of picture to illustrate text-driving:

It seems to depict a scene in 1990s Britain, where a woman is using a Nokia mobile in a right-hand-drive Mercedes which is heading for the grass verge while another rather silly woman is standing with two children in the road.

 

Now text-drivers have a good chance of ending up in a crash.

 

And it looks like they could then end up being filmed by other drivers using their mobiles in camera-mode.

 

The BBC have this story here.

 

Police Officers at the scene of a crash in Northamptonshire noticed motorists taking photographs as they drove past on the opposite carriageway.  So the Police then started photographing the offending drivers with a view to later prosecutions.

 

Strangely enough, the British story features a left-hand drive car interior.  I can neither identify the car nor the phone...

...but I would say it is from the 2000s and it does look a bit Opel-ish.

 

Mind you, put "phone driving" into Google Images and it looks like everyone is at it.

 

So...

 

Put the Bloody Phone Down!