Driving into work this morning and

whilst sitting a set of traffic lights on an un-gritted road along comes a chap in his car using his mobile phone. Road is compacted snow that has ice in places.

Enraged with his stupidity, I got out of my car and insisted he switch his phone off, clearly embarrassed he gestures to acknowledge his stupidity, but carries on using his phone.

By now a white van has stopped behind him and looks at me to understand what is going on. I pointed out that the driver is using his phone and driving, at this point a big bloke gets out of his van and walks over to the car, he taps the window the mobile user clearly shocked switches of his phone.

The traffic by now has moved on he follows me at some distance until the roundabout where I work I turned of the main road and made my way to security and a result he follows.

I made sure the guard knew of his stupidly, leaving the guard to have a word. I have got his registration and will be leaving a note on his car.

Asking him to tell his family and friends of what happened on the way to work today….

I suspect he won’t because they would have the view as me

This week I have ran 4 red lights.

well done

Good effort Kona.

Whats the link? It just goes to STW when i click on it 😥

Texting death crash woman jailed – story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7865114.stm

If you’d done that to me I’d have told you to **** off. But I don’t use my mobile whilst driving, nor do I condone it and the driver concerned was an idiot. I wonder what the gaurd at work said?

Maybe he was phoning the council to ask them to get a gritter out.

I just couldnt work up that sort of enthusiasm to make a comment, especially not if he hadnt done anything dangerous due to the phone use (other than the phone use). I’m still torn on the phone-in-car issue, while I dont do it anymore I really cant see any difference between that and driving along one handed talkign to a passenger, which isnt illegal etc and personally dont find a problem concentrating – the road commands my attention and if I’m in a conversation with a passenger when things get tricky I just stop talking. Sure some people are totally bimbo-ish and lose all concentration on the road, but they’re like that anyway behind the wheel!

Anyway, well done for the public service and announcing how good you are to us all 😉

I don’t think I would ever get to work if I did that to everyone I see on a phone driving!

Gary_M,

Had that covered my mobile in my hand camera ready, Police and the BBC would have got a copy.

coffeeking,

usually I can’t be bothered but with a young girl jailed for 21 months for killing another young girl only reported in the press 4 days ago, I had to say something.

He was my age 40’s and just the type who would tut tut at others

Maybe if we all pointed out bad driving and the police used road technology to take poor drivers to task then 10 people a day, every day would not get killed on our roads.

Police and the BBC would have got a copy Why, is he famous?

Police = prosecution

Being branded a dangerous driver by family and friends

Hopefully educating the driving public that some of us have a sense of public duty when it comes to saving lives

A lot to ask in today’s me, me, me society I know…

Must admit a non-gritted, snowy road with traffic/peds/cyclists around is a bit of stupid place to be on a handheld phone, but really there is no way in hell it woudl become even remotely practical to do this to every person doing something wrong (and some of the places I ride/drive through you’d get knifed for taking out a camera phone, then they’d pinch that too). I mean every day I see people running reds, bikes and cars, every day I see people driving up the rear of another car, going up one-ways the wrong way, with dodgy tyres, with no lights, with fog lights on etc etc. Now I’d love to report them all as I feel these are all things that you have to choose to do wrong (rather than a simple mistake), but I dont consider my position to be one of judge, jury and executioner so I struggle to justify action.

See your point, just totally impractical to execute it, and sometimes downright dangerous.

Some people can’t walk and use a mobile, let alone drive