using mobile phones whilst driving - Page 4

lindsay ormerod · 21-02-2010, 22:48

Having had a friend killed by some nonentity yapping on her mobile, I take a very dim view of it. Only 3 days after that horrible crash on Eastgate I saw some prat in a white van yacking away whilst going thru the traffic lights at the bottom of Burnley Rd, I was stood on the pedestrian island at the time and gave him a gesture that really can't have been mistaken, he quickly put the phone and his head down.....

cashman · 21-02-2010, 23:50

Pesonally i think they should sentence anyone caught using one whilst driving to 3 months, twould soon reduce usage dramatically. but they aint got the bottle cos bet half of the law makers do it.

DaveinGermany · 22-02-2010, 19:38

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Originally Posted by cashman

Pesonally i think they should sentence anyone caught using one whilst driving to 3 months, twould soon reduce usage dramatically. but they aint got the bottle cos bet half of the law makers do it.

Aye there was, that Asian lord Ahmed, sentenced then released or some such crap.Last year it was.

Lord Ahmed freed from prison - The Star

jaysay · 23-02-2010, 10:30

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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Aye there was, that Asian lord Ahmed, sentenced then released or some such crap.Last year it was.

Lord Ahmed freed from prison - The Star

Oh come on Dave there's a different law for politicians

maxthecollie · 06-03-2010, 18:23

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Originally Posted by Greeny

yesterday while waiting to cross Whalley Road in the Oaklea area , in the 30seconds I watched the traffic pass by I spotted a young woman driving a 4 x 4 her head bent over to her left shoulder as her mobile phone was wedged there while she chatted. Four vehicles later a young woman driving with one hand on steering wheel , in the other hand her mobile phone and she was busy texing. Just when will these people learn , had there been an accident what excuse would they come up with.
I know the police can not be everywhere but I think it is high time these law breakers were made an example of and heavily fined. They are accidents waiting to happen.

If we see these drivers why don't the police?

Stumped · 06-03-2010, 20:13

My most outrageous memory takes me back to the mid 1980's when I was a serving policeman and my attention was drawn to a Ford Sierra being driven erratically on the A59 Clitheroe by-pass around 11-30pm in total darkness and without lights. I managed to draw alongside the vehicle and spotted a young female, face to face with and straddling the driver. I leave it to your imagination to work out what they were up to, needless to say the driver looked ecstatic until I pulled him over and breathalysed him. He was a married man and the girl was his baby sitter whom he had volunteered to take home. He was also well over the drink/drive limit and subsequently imprisoned for 6-months and banned from driving for 2-years. His wife began divorce proceedings whilst he was inside.

Benipete · 06-03-2010, 21:35

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Originally Posted by Stumped

My most outrageous memory takes me back to the mid 1980's when I was a serving policeman and my attention was drawn to a Ford Sierra being driven erratically on the A59 Clitheroe by-pass around 11-30pm in total darkness and without lights. I managed to draw alongside the vehicle and spotted a young female, face to face with and straddling the driver. I leave it to your imagination to work out what they were up to, needless to say the driver looked ecstatic until I pulled him over and breathalysed him. He was a married man and the girl was his baby sitter whom he had volunteered to take home. He was also well over the drink/drive limit and subsequently imprisoned for 6-months and banned from driving for 2-years. His wife began divorce proceedings whilst he was inside.

It's people like you that ruin married life.

accyman · 06-03-2010, 22:12

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Originally Posted by Stumped

My most outrageous memory takes me back to the mid 1980's when I was a serving policeman and my attention was drawn to a Ford Sierra being driven erratically on the A59 Clitheroe by-pass around 11-30pm in total darkness and without lights. I managed to draw alongside the vehicle and spotted a young female, face to face with and straddling the driver. I leave it to your imagination to work out what they were up to, needless to say the driver looked ecstatic until I pulled him over and breathalysed him. He was a married man and the girl was his baby sitter whom he had volunteered to take home. He was also well over the drink/drive limit and subsequently imprisoned for 6-months and banned from driving for 2-years. His wife began divorce proceedings whilst he was inside.

when yuo asked him to blow in the bag did he not point out to you that he had only just taken it off

mallard · 06-03-2010, 22:36

yes i see this all the time when i am going out shopping and most of the time when they are takeing there children to and from the schools

david1 · 06-03-2010, 22:47

I was walking to work a few years back , I was crossing the road at a set of traffic lights , There was a police woman sat in her police car at the lights in the drivers seat . She had one hand on the steering wheel , no seatbelt , and a ice-cream cornet in the other hand ???

Benipete · 06-03-2010, 22:57

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Originally Posted by david1

I was walking to work a few years back , I was crossing the road at a set of traffic lights , There was a police woman sat in her police car at the lights in the drivers seat . She had one hand on the steering wheel , no seatbelt , and a ice-cream cornet in the other hand ???

Was that in Preston David?

If so I think I know her - She was nick-named the Pendleton's Twicer.

jaysay · 07-03-2010, 10:22

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Originally Posted by Benipete

Was that in Preston David?

If so I think I know her - She was nick-named the Pendleton's Twicer.

Icecream with a lolly each end