Reporting mobile use while driving

[gaz]

Sorry, I think that its annoying people going around trying to report minor stuff, just get on with your own lifes.

Not directing this at you, I would probs be looking at the car anyway and not looking where im going.

How about you get on with your only life and leave the rest of us who are campaigning for safer roads to get on with doing it.

 

[growingvegetables]

Sorry, I think that its annoying people going around trying to report minor stuff, just get on with your own lifes.

• Yesterday, your "minor stuff" damned near took me out on the approach to a zebra crossing, and again on the zebra crossing.
• Your "minor stuff" also scared the **** out of pedestrians at the next zebra crossing.
• Your "minor stuff" then turned right, imho, recklessly and only very marginally in control.

Yes - I fully intend to get on with my own life, for a very long time. And I, sure as hell, will do all I can to make sure idiots on phones (your "minor stuff") do not curtail mine or anybody else's lives.

You're annoyed? Sorry, mate - if that's the price for me living my life to its full stretch, you've got a lot more annoying to come. Tough!


Edited - and get real! That wasn't the first time - and thanks in part to the complacency of people who think like you, it is (sadly) unlikely to be the last time.

 

[BentMikey]

Is this worth reporting to Roadsafe. The last time I reported something they didn't even reply.
I think this is probably one of the biggest dangers on the road nowadays, Drivers who are using their phones for texting, updating facebook etc.

Yeah, I'd report it. Don't listen to Peter Armstrong, IMO.

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Lucky there is no Dislike button for this comment but the cycist should be looking where hes going instead of worrying about the car driver.

This is some sort of joke right?

Sometimes I look in when I come across strange behaviour or want some sort of tip of what the driver is going to do next when he passes me,like he may be thinking of left hooking me,he may be making a movement to signal left or right.I find it a handy tip and not necessarily because I want to catch someone using a mobile phone.Sometimes in car behaviour can be a handy warning to what is going to happen next.

Yes,I worry about car drivers as some are complete buffoons in charge of a ton of metal.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

ooo lets look inside this persons car, let see what they are doing. I want to catch them on a mobile because im sad.
Driver hates cyclist, driver finds out sad cyclists are reporting mobile users, driver hates cyclists even more.

 

[gaz]

ooo lets look inside this persons car, let see what they are doing. I want to catch them on a mobile because im sad.
Driver hates cyclist, driver finds out sad cyclists are reporting mobile users, driver hates cyclists even more.

Ooo lets look inside this thread, lets see what they are doing. I don't like what they are doing, but instead of getting on with my own business, i'm going to comment about how I think it is sad, but not quite realizing that in the process, I am also being sad.

 

[trampyjoe]

ooo lets look inside this persons car, let see what they are doing. I want to catch them on a mobile because im sad.
Driver hates cyclist, driver finds out sad cyclists are reporting mobile users, driver hates cyclists even more.

If they weren't breaking the law they wouldn't get annoyed.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Well I always drive with one hand holding a mobile phone, one hand holding a cig and my another hand holding a drink.

 

[benb]

Well I always drive with one hand holding a mobile phone, one hand holding a cig and my another hand holding a drink.

Hi Zaphod

 

[adamangler]

Personally dont agree with grassing people up for using mobile phones, i am a cyclist, but i also drive for a living and a few times me or my colleagues have been told tales on for various things (whether in the right or wrong) because the company number is plastered on the side of our vans. If somone driving is using a phone effects you personally at that time then by all means have it out with them, but i find telling tales behind people back cowardly and a bit pathetic really. Its not really solving anything either its like speeding fines, most people who get caught will continue to speed, perhaps a little more cautiously .

 

[BentMikey]

Personally dont agree with grassing people up for using mobile phones, i am a cyclist, but i also drive for a living and a few times me or my colleagues have been told tales on for various things (whether in the right or wrong) because the company number is plastered on the side of our vans. If somone driving is using a phone effects you personally at that time then by all means have it out with them, but i find telling tales behind people back cowardly and a bit pathetic really. Its not really solving anything either its like speeding fines, most people who get caught will continue to speed, perhaps a little more cautiously .

Yeah, sure, because you're going to take it so well, saying "I'm sorry I was naughty, I won't do it again." Cool story bro.

More importantly, I'd rather you got a little pain from work over that behaviour than killing someone through your distracted driving. Casual and careless driving habits are NOT ACCEPTABLE. You are in charge of two tonnes or more of heavy machinery at speed in the public space, you have a huge duty of care to other people. Take your responsibility seriously and stop whinging about "being told on". FFS!!!

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

I think using phones while driving is selfish and irresponsible.How can a phone call be more urgent than safe and responsible driving?

People have been killed by this behaviour,you know?

 

[adamangler]

Personally dont agree with grassing people up for using mobile phones, i am a cyclist, but i also drive for a living and a few times me or my colleagues have been told tales on for various things (whether in the right or wrong) because the company number is plastered on the side of our vans. If somone driving is using a phone effects you personally at that time then by all means have it out with them, but i find telling tales behind people back cowardly and a bit pathetic really. Its not really solving anything either its like speeding fines, most people who get caught will continue to speed, perhaps a little more cautiously .

Yeah, sure, because you're going to take it so well, saying "I'm sorry I was naughty, I won't do it again." Cool story bro.

More importantly, I'd rather you got a little pain from work over that behaviour than killing someone through your distracted driving. Casual and careless driving habits are NOT ACCEPTABLE. You are in charge of two tonnes or more of heavy machinery at speed in the public space, you have a huge duty of care to other people. Take your responsibility seriously and stop whinging about "being told on". FFS!!!

Actually I don't use my phone when driving at work because its 3 points and I need my licence. But that doesn't give me the right to tell tales on everyone doing something I disagree with. Being on the road every day I see it all, speeding, mobile phones, arguments, cutting up, jumping lights etc. If I were to report every incidentI've ever seen I'd be on the phone all the time! You just shrug your shoulders and get on with it, I tend to ignore idiots and the times I have felt the need to complain the windows down and have a discussion, that's it, done, forget it. I take offence to sneaky cowardly behaviour. I'm a firm believer of if you have a problem with someone to take it out face to face. Believe me if some idiot driver knocked me off my bike whilst on the phone I would certainly take the issue up with them or the police however I can't agree with random acts of vigilante. Keep your nose out imo. I agree with the principal of careless driving being punishable and I don't condone it. I wouldn't want someone telling tales on me so wouldn't do it to someone else., why people feel the need to interfere in other people's business is beyond me.

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

I dont ignore 5h1t driving.

 

[BentMikey]

Actually I don't use my phone when driving at work because its 3 points and I need my licence. But that doesn't give me the right to tell tales on everyone doing something I disagree with. Being on the road every day I see it all, speeding, mobile phones, arguments, cutting up, jumping lights etc. If I were to report every incidentI've ever seen I'd be on the phone all the time! You just shrug your shoulders and get on with it, I tend to ignore idiots and the times I have felt the need to complain the windows down and have a discussion, that's it, done, forget it. I take offence to sneaky cowardly behaviour. I'm a firm believer of if you have a problem with someone to take it out face to face. Believe me if some idiot driver knocked me off my bike whilst on the phone I would certainly take the issue up with them or the police however I can't agree with random acts of vigilante. Keep your nose out imo. I agree with the principal of careless driving being punishable and I don't condone it. I wouldn't want someone telling tales on me so wouldn't do it to someone else., why people feel the need to interfere in other people's business is beyond me.

What is sneaky and cowardly is expecting people not to report serious misdeeds, equivalent to drink driving. Think of it as a stupidity tax - if you're stupid enough to do something illegal knowingly, and knowingly risking other peoples' lives, then you should expect consequences. It's not interfering in other peoples' business, it's dealing with an issue that directly affects me personally.

It's long past time to stop tolerating such misbehaviour on our roads.