to get very aggrannoyed at people who are STILL using mobile phones whilst driving ?

[vienna1981]

l saw two of them this afternoon within seconds of each other. Both age twenty-something. A young man steering round the roundabout one-handed with his phone clamped to his ear. Then a young woman busy texting, Facebooking while she trundled towards the traffic lights. BTW I WAS concentrating on my own driving.

It gets right up my nose. Do these selfish twats think the law doesn't apply to them ? Or do they think they're invincible ?

I was nearly run over on a crossing by some fucker on a 'phone. Lights on red, i was almost halfway across when I just happened to turn my head and seeing a car speeding towards me. I had to leap out of the way - he would taken me out if I hadn't glanced to the right.

I can remember exactly what he looked like, RayBans on, one hand on the wheel, 'phone clamped to his ear, completely fucking oblivious to the fact that he'd nearly wiped me out.

So yeah. I get pissed off when I see it too. How did you know a driver was on Facebook though?

Yanbu, it's selfish and dangerous behaviour.
I'm fed up with drivers who think they don't have to stop and give way at zebra crossings - even if you're already part way across!

Anyone caught doing this needs their phone crushed on the spot, and a 500 fine. Second offence 6 months jail. It would soon stop.

Firstwetakemanhattan. I admit I don't know if it was Facebook. She was pressing buttons so it appeared it was data use rather than making a phone call. She kept looking down at her phone. Either way the road wasn't getting her full attention.

They suffer from 'it won't happen/doesn't apply to me' mentality. It annoys me as well, the amount of people I see on mobile phones who don't even glance to the right when at a roundabout and sail through either cutting up or almost clipping someone.

I think people who use their phones while driving ought to just lose their license. No points, no fines, no second chances. And in this day and age, why not just use a hands-free kit?

I hate it too. Especially when they have kids in the back!

It is incredibly selfish behaviour and the penalties clearly aren't severe enough.

Nine points

6 month disqualification

£500 fine

Compulsory re-test

So there !

I saw a young lad in dark clothing and no lights cycling along the south circular in the dark the other night, with an i-pad resting on his handlebars which he was tapping on as he cycled.

Infact, it was the light from the i-pad which made me see him as I got up really close, he was otherwise quite invisible.

FOOL!

some people would still drive, even without a license.

No you are not unreasonable.
It really fucks me off, there is no need, and if you are waiting for something urgent pull over when safe and ring back.
I previously followed a car who was drifting to the other side of the road, and then back over to the left and just generally not in great control of the car.
We then pulled up to a big roundabout with multiple lanes and stopped as the lights turned.
I was sat a traffic lights in one of the middle lanes, the car to my left was the driver I had been following and was on the phone, it was hot so had my windows down (relevant), I was ranting to my passenger about them being on the phone and their shit driving and ended it saying its a shame there was not a police car around.
With that the car to my right beeped, and signalled at the car driver to put down the phone.

The driver on the mobile gave the car that beeped 2 fingers, told them to fuck off and mind their own fucking business- with that the car to my right popped on their blues and twos and manoeuvred around to have a chat to to phone driver .

Mintyy at the cyclist with the iPad on his handlebars! South circular is bad enough without that to contend with...

Ya. That's a great story. Serves the arrogant prick well and truly right. I just wish there was always a copper around when you want one.

A few years ago I saw a scene that beggared belief. Woman driver, making a mobile phone call, infant child on the FRONT seat, no child seat, not even strapped in. That particular silly bitch really deserved the book throwing at her. I would add she was driving slowly down a cobbled street but even so.

I know, the way everything happened in such a great sequence, we even got to hear the first bit of her bollocking before the lights changed.

The worst offenders appear to be youngsters. Then van drivers. I have even caught a bus driver at it, with passengers on the bus.

marshmallowpies
I drove for the first time in the North Circular and areas near yesterday, it was an experience, I was at the amount (nearly all) of cyclists and motorbikes weaving in and out, pulling out and general driving- hearts of steel.

YANBU to be annoyed or aggravated but YABU to be aggrannoyed. Can't you just be incandescent with RAGE as standard on MN.

I regularly see a police officer I know using one whilst driving. Not in uniform.

No excuse for that Harriet. Should be disciplined.

Aggrannoyed is one of my late mother's expressions. How about 'boils my piss ' ?

I have Bluetooth so I can chat hands-free on the phone and fully concentrate on my driving. It is no different to talking to someone sitting next to me in the passenger seat.

Every time I see somebody driving whilst using a mobile phone I think the same thought. What is so important that you have to talk about it NOW, the same time you are supposed to be in control of a vehicle ? Can your precious conversation not wait a while ?

They are complete idiots - you are definitely not unreasonable. It needs to be as socially unacceptable as drinking and driving.

It's the same on the trains (though at least they are just annoying, not dangerous there) - the world is not going to stop turning if you delay your conversation!

As well as those who talk while driving, you get the ones who pull up on a busy road to chat, rather than waiting 10 seconds and turning into the next side-road.

Personally, I would happily confiscate and sell the car of anyone caught using a phone.

I would also execute people who don't clear up after their dog and/or litter.

It is as bad as drink-driving and should be treated as such.

I know someone who was stopped on the motorway for being on their mobile phone, but being lenient, the police pointed them in the direction of the nearest services to buy a hands free kit. Same man was then stopped 5 again 5 miles down the road, by the same police because he was setting up the hands free system he'd just bought... Some people just don't get it. Ever.

Mind you, worse than the mobile phone drivers are the people carriers on annual holiday pilgrimage in the direction of Dover. Kids in the back who seem to need constant talkings to, mum driving constantly turning round to tend to said children instead of looking at the road ahead, causing veering, lane wandering and erratic breaking and accelerating as they slow down every time they look backwards. At least the majority of people i see on their mobile phones are facing the direction of travel.

It's why I have a dashcam.