Reporting mobile use while driving

[glasgowcyclist]

Close passes, fair enough, any kind of reckless driving that puts you in danger, also fair enough, some dick reporting you for being on the phone in stationary traffic is not on though. Some of you ****ers are just snitching for the sake of it these days and really need to get a life.

Is mobile use while driving something you're guilty of then?

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[glenn forger]

Close passes, fair enough, any kind of reckless driving that puts you in danger, also fair enough, some dick reporting you for being on the phone in stationary traffic is not on though. Some of you ****ers are just snitching for the sake of it these days and really need to get a life.

Hope Fennell, a thirteen year old girl killed by a lorry driver texting while stationary who failed to notice her in front of his lorry when the lights changed:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-girlfriend-released-just-THREE-months.html

The driver, darren Foster, climbed back in his cab as the girl lay dying and tried to delete his texts:

 

[Colby]

Texting and driving is bad I had some cyiciest report me and I would of denied it but cops did get me red handed he's again I just got my truck out of the impound and now its back in iv bin caught tomany times on my phone. Here's my truck sitting in parking lot eating to be towed to impound again but they did tell me the last time they would impound it and I choose to do it any way and I got reported and caught red handed so I'm fine with punishment I do kinda deserve it lol

 

[Lemond]

Dangerous cycling is as dangerous to other road users as dangerous driving? Really?
Then please explain how drivers kill hundreds yet cyclists kill less than 1 a year on average.

To claim that cycling without paying attention as as serious as driving without paying attention is idiotic, and laughable.

And we're clearly not all bound by the same rules: driving while using a mobile is illegal, cycling while using a mobile is not. Amongst others,

It's quite simple really: there are an awful lot more cars on the roads than bikes.

But regardless of this, the dangers are exactly the same: you can drive into a pedestrian and kill them, and you can cycle into a pedestrian and kill them.

And there's nothing remotely laughable about it.

 

[Drago]

Texting and driving is bad I had some cyiciest report me and I would of denied it but cops did get me red handed he's again I just got my truck out of the impound and now its back in iv bin caught tomany times on my phone. Here's my truck sitting in parking lot eating to be towed to impound again but they did tell me the last time they would impound it and I choose to do it any way and I got reported and caught red handed so I'm fine with punishment I do kinda deserve it lol

Could you repeat that in English?

 

[glenn forger]

It's quite simple really: there are an awful lot more cars on the roads than bikes.

But regardless of this, the dangers are exactly the same: you can drive into a pedestrian and kill them, and you can cycle into a pedestrian and kill them.

And there's nothing remotely laughable about it.

The dangers are the same? Being hit by two tons of metal versus a fifteen stone human?

 

[Drago]

I'd have to lose a fair bit to be a mere 15 stones.

 

[Lemond]

The dangers are the same? Being hit by two tons of metal versus a fifteen stone human?

Either one could kill you if they hit you, so yes.

 

[glenn forger]

If you seriously think the dangers are the same you're dangerously deluded.

 

[Lemond]

If you seriously think the dangers are the same you're dangerously deluded.

The danger of death versus the danger of death. They kinda seem the same to me.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

If you seriously think the dangers are the same you're dangerously deluded.

Indeed, everyone knows cyclists can't damage people by hitting them, if they could we'd be talking about how terrible it is that they ride around one handed while drinking, or change their clothes on the move. They are like marshmallows with wheels.

 

[glenn forger]

The danger of death versus the danger of death. They kinda seem the same to me.

Drivers kill two thousand people a year, cyclists kill on average half a person a year.

If you seriously think two thousand is the same as 0.5 then may I interest you in some magic beans?

 

[Lemond]

Drivers kill two thousand people a year, cyclists kill on average half a person a year.

If you seriously think two thousand is the same as 0.5 then may I interest you in some magic beans?

You're a real charmer, aren't you. Why not just say you disagree?

 

[benb]

It's quite simple really: there are an awful lot more cars on the roads than bikes.

But regardless of this, the dangers are exactly the same: you can drive into a pedestrian and kill them, and you can cycle into a pedestrian and kill them.

And there's nothing remotely laughable about it.

I suggest you educate yourself on basic physics, particularly kinetic energy.

Even taking the difference in modal share into account, motorised vehicles are orders of magnitude more dangerous to pedestrians than cycles.

 

[Cuchilo]

How much are these magic beans ?