Mobile phone use while driving
- Thread starter benb
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upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
- Location
- The middle bit
No change here. If anything I see the regulars doing it even more often. I commute mainly on rural lanes so there's very little chance of them being seen.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
Harder to see them in the light, the screens don't light up their faces as they tweet/text &c.
"I AM IN A TRAFFIC JAMS, LOL"
"I AM IN A TRAFFIC JAMS, LOL"
Vikeonabike
CC Neighbourhood Police Constable
- Location
- Bourne, Lincolnshire
Nope it's on the increase...despite my best efforts....Need a faster bike and blue lights, can't quite get my issue mountain bike upto 30 mph to catch the buggers and stop them without the help of traffic lights! 
Matthames
Über Member
- Location
- East Sussex
This tweet from Sussex safer roads partnership yesterday seems to suggest that it is on the rise:
DrSquirrel
Guest
No, it's still rife.
Saw someone texting the other day... with 2 hands.
Also another one (its not the first I have seen) in the last few weeks with a filofax kind of thing, writing in it on the motorway.
Who the hell still uses a filofax?
An old Yuppie.
DrSquirrel
Guest
"kind of thing".
It was a book (A5ish), with a zip case and a spiral binding in the middle.
It was a book (A5ish), with a zip case and a spiral binding in the middle.
Mice
Guru
Did this campaign ever take off in the UK? If you have a chance to watch the video, do.
no phone zone
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no phone zone
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I had one last week who passed me just before some lights, then cut into my lane.
I pulled up beside him and saw he was on the phone so tapped gently (ahem) on his door whilst staring at him (Joystick on full power) and asked whether he was naturally an arse or whether he'd been taking lessons. Then I pulled in front of him and, when the lights changed, went very slowly round the roundabout in primary. Funnily, the cars in the lanes either side were also going slowly alongside him, so he had nowhere to go.
Off the roundabout, muppet overtakes me then, about 100m later, puts his right indicator on and pulls into his house. I stopped at the end of his drive, with the Joystick still on full, and watched him get out of his car, kinda like the trucker in Duel but older and fatter and on a Tricross rather than an 18 wheeler.
I pulled up beside him and saw he was on the phone so tapped gently (ahem) on his door whilst staring at him (Joystick on full power) and asked whether he was naturally an arse or whether he'd been taking lessons. Then I pulled in front of him and, when the lights changed, went very slowly round the roundabout in primary. Funnily, the cars in the lanes either side were also going slowly alongside him, so he had nowhere to go.
Off the roundabout, muppet overtakes me then, about 100m later, puts his right indicator on and pulls into his house. I stopped at the end of his drive, with the Joystick still on full, and watched him get out of his car, kinda like the trucker in Duel but older and fatter and on a Tricross rather than an 18 wheeler.