Drivers face penality using phones

mick said:
I had a walk into town yesterday down Blackburn rd.
6 drivers using mobile phones and 8 parked half on the pavment 3 on double yellow lines and 1 totaly parked all four wheels on the pavement right infront of a pedestrian crossing near the post office.
i thought they where stopping this:confused:
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Its easier if they walk the beat to catch them but sadley police walking the beat is rarer the rocking horse dung. Unless they can chase them in squad cars they aint gonna bother.
 
mick said:
I had a walk into town yesterday down Blackburn rd.
6 drivers using mobile phones and 8 parked half on the pavment 3 on double yellow lines and 1 totaly parked all four wheels on the pavement right infront of a pedestrian crossing near the post office.
i thought they where stopping this:confused:
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Did yuou ring teh police to complain? I know its liek banging your head against a wall. Perhaps take a piccy or two and send them to the observer and get them to do a "Police in can't be arsed shocker!"
 
When you phone make sure you get an incident log number. The next time you see the same phone again quoting the original log number. You can always ask to speak to the geographic Inspector for the area and ask he/she why nothing is being done about it.

Been there, done that, got something done. ;)
 
entwisi said:
Did yuou ring teh police to complain? I know its liek banging your head against a wall. Perhaps take a piccy or two and send them to the observer and get them to do a "Police in can't be arsed shocker!"
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And the police answer would be that they are trying but aint got the manpower to enforce it.

:rolleyes:
 
steeljack; Are there no drive-thrus at McDonalds and other fast food places ? :confused: :confused: :confused:[/quote said:
well charlie wants to ban that too.....:rolleyes:
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its simple in the end, drivers who are caught using there phones should get whats coming to them, same for drink drivers, and drug users!
 
There was an expert on the news saying that tests have been done showing that the reaction times of someone using a mobile are worse than someone who is just over the legal drink drive limit.

I do take the point that someone eating/changing a cd/trying to control naughty kids/ smoking, is probably just as dangerous as using a mobile.

I've never done it, I can't even smoke and drive, but have to stop for a nicotine break.:D
 
Taxi drivers & mobiles are my biggest gripe.Okay if they have to pick up the radio handset to answer a call regarding a job,but several times i've just got in the cab & he's answering his mobile to someone who must know his job is behind the wheel of a car.He's putting lives at risk and i'm paying for the privelidge:eek: We can't pick up & answer our phones whenever we please at work so why should they,and i'm on the shop floor not some busy highway.
At the same time,seeing as they're banning everything else,they can ban all this crap boom boom boom so called music that blasts out of car windows as that must be classed as a distraction,and a nuisance.More of an ASBO offence that one.
 
Rindy, there was an expert who also said that it depends on the person. Some people are able to prioristise the driving above the phone call and suffer no negative affect on reaction times or quality of driving. However as usual this minority have to be goverened by a law to protect the majority. I'm not saying this is right or wrong, just the way of the world.
 
entwisi said:
Did yuou ring teh police to complain? I know its liek banging your head against a wall. Perhaps take a piccy or two and send them to the observer and get them to do a "Police in can't be arsed shocker!"
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I would think this a useless exercise Ian as the Observer would probably not print it, I take it you mean the 'local rag' it is very fussy what it prints in that direction if you get what I mean. I have tried to get it into the letters to the editor pages about the Taxi firm in Edgar St to no avail, about them double parking on both sides side blocking the pavements despite the yellow lines, try pushing a pram down Edgar St you will have walk down the middle of the road. They are very crafty they always leave one car with a bloke in it in the unlikely event of a copper turning up. No the Accrington Observer is very PC.
 
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programme on BBC1 at 9.30 tonight re enforced the sense of this. Young woman of 23 killed outright when a 7ton wagon slammed into back of her as she waited in a traffic jam. Car was crushed beyond recognition & was finally found that driver of wagon had been fiddling with his mobile when he hit her at 60mph. He finally admitted use of phone in court & was jailed for 4 years & banned from driving for 7 years. Yet police officer who had to identify her from remains & then go & break news to her family had to stop & tick off a woman driver on same motorway while driving back to scene after delivering news to family. Her ears should stil be ringing now & rightly so. Hands free dont cost the £1 million it costs in the aftermath of a fatal accident!
 
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