Get caught twice using your mobile phone while driving

[steve50]

and you will lose your licence under far tougher new sanctions that will be announced by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling on Saturday.
About bloody time too!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/g...-and-you-will-lose-your-licence-a7312221.html

 

[keithmac]

Sounds fair enough to me!.

 

[Roadhump]

Not before time. Reading the readers' comments, there are some good points too. If anyone doubts the impact of bad driving behaviour (whether mobile phone using, drink or drug driving) should read the second comment from "Grieving Mum".

A couple of unclear areas for me are; firstly, what is the situation re hands free, it doesn't seem to be covered by this, but if you had an accident and it was found you had been using hands free, the cops would probably include it as evidence of careless / dangerous driving. The second point, as someone pointed out, is where are the cops going to come from to enforce this? There don't seem to be many left.

 

[numbnuts]

If your stupid enough to get caught and loose your licence the same person will carry on driving and now without insurance.

 

[jonny jeez]

Unless you sanction them further

UK's 'most banned driver' from Stockport jailed - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-37632908

: "Extreme cases such as his deserve severe punishment and he ought to be banned for life."

what a pointless comment. he HAS a ban for life...he just tops it up every 4 months. I doubt he has ever been "not banned"

lets ban him for infinity plus one, yeah!! that stop him driving.

 

[Drago]

First you have to actually get caught, which the chances of are slim to none.

Then you have to do it all a second time.

Make it a banning offence, like rink during. Grasp the nettle please Government.

 

[mjr]

Make it a banning offence, like rink during. Grasp the nettle please Government.

Awful, going on an ice rink during driving...

But seriously, I agree. This isn't something you can misjudge. You use a handheld device without stopping as a deliberate act. Can't do it accidentally. It's more clear cut than not allowing enough time after drinking alcohol, even. The punishment should reflect that.

 

[coffeejo]

First you have to actually get caught, which the chances of are slim to none.

Then you have to do it all a second time.

Make it a banning offence, like rink during. Grasp the nettle please Government.

Have you been rinking? I don't want to know what it was during

 

[numbnuts]

There is just no point to anything is there?

The mentality of some car drivers today think that no one will stop me doing what I want to, hence driving while banned, drunk on drugs and no insurance they don't care anymore.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

"What else am I supposed to do?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37643994

 

[Jody]

The mentality of some car drivers today think that no one will stop me doing what I want to, hence driving while banned, drunk on drugs and no insurance they don't care anymore.

800 miles driven last week and only saw 2 police cars. Last night I was driving home about 8pm follwing a motorway patrol car and a car went past in the opposite direction doing at least 50 in a 30 (if not 60+), the police car didn't even slow down let alone turn around.

I saw some sh*t going around on Facebook last week about Birminghams "Bike Life" scene. If you want tosee blatant disregard, idiocy and beyond dangerous use of the roads then look it up. I was disgusted. They are even brazen enough to have their own FB page and post all the footage.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

He needs to put an end to special pleading on this point.

Aw come on now.. how do you expect a millionaire footballer to get by with not being able to drive?

 

[Tim Hall]

"What else am I supposed to do?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37643994

Interestingly in the video linked to, the BBC reporter makes reference to a woman being killed by a driver who was texting. The online accounts, that I can find, of the driver's trial make no mention of that, only that he was using a hands free phone. Either the BBC know something we don't or they've made a mistake.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Interestingly in the video linked to, the BBC reporter makes reference to a woman being killed by a driver who was texting. The online accounts, that I can find, of the driver's trial make no mention of that, only that he was using a hands free phone. Either the BBC know something we don't or they've made a mistake.

At what point does she do that? I can't see it.

 

[Tim Hall]

At what point does she do that? I can't see it.

47 seconds in the reporter mentions it to a driver. They cut away to a captioned still shot of Jane Hobbs at 54s.