To be really angry at woman driver reading to her toddler

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Picture the scene.

Tootling along in second gear, end to end, late afternoon on the A1(M). I look across and there's a woman reading to her toddler/child who I could not see. She has some kind of picture book with words, held up in her left hand, and is pointing things out in the book with her right fingers, using her wrist to steer with.

For some reason this made me absolutely furious.

My AIBU is not was she a class A tit, because I cannot imagine anyone disagreeing with that. It's, was I unreasonable to feel so angry I contemplated for a moment stopping the car and berating her.

Why couldn’t the toddler hold the book themselves?!

It’s stupid shit like this that causes accidents.

It’s times like that when you need a passenger to take a photo of her actions (and her index) and report her. Plenty of police forces will deal with dangerous driving with photo/video evidence.
If you had a go at her you would not get the desired response.

I don't get why you have to say "woman driver". Isn't it obvious she's a woman from you calling her "her"?

Misses point

YADNBU. I see stupid stuff like that ALL the time and can’t quite believe we’re still functioning as a species when idiocy like this is so prevalent. Do the police actually do anything with reports of this sort of thing? I’m always tempted to report people on their phones etc but am usually at the wheel so can’t take pictures, and not sure anything would actually come of it anyway as it’s so common

Passed a sign the other day urging people to report dangerous driving and send their dashcam footage in.

That is what is needed these days.

Agreed DontCallMeShitley - I’m really surprised we haven’t had a massive public campaign about this. Shocking adverts (like the kill your speed or drink driving ones), that sort of thing. Long overdue IMO.

It’s not always a massive campaign but it’ll be on your local force’s website.

YANBU. It's stupid, selfish behaviour.

Lol @ "woman driver"
Bloody women drivers!!!!!!

Thing is that after passing the sign, someone undertook and cut in just ahead.

Someone went into the back of me once because they were turned round chatting to their toddler Rather than looking at the road. Definitely not unreasonable

a few years ago some people were killed near my work because a guy was reading a book whilst driving and ploughed through a red into their car (he suvived I might add)