Texting whilst driving is now getting incredibly common. I suspect it's because the idiots think that it's only an offence if you drive and TALK on the phone.
Last year, whilst walking to
Halfords at Hermiston Gate one lunchtime, I witnessed a woman drive out of the work slip-road, straight across the roundabout and hit the pavement head-on at the other side. She'd never once looked up from the phone she was holding in her lap and texting on. Luckily there wasn't anyone else going round the RAB at the time, and there were no pedestrians on the pavment she mounted.
It's now a disciplinary offence to drive and use a mobile on company property (including the car park and access roads), so they now tend to wait until they're out on the main road before they pick the phone up.
