Well just so long as the driver was able to finish the phone call. Apparently that's the important thing.

I still see so many people driving along jabbering on the phone even though it is illegal and subject to immediate fines.
Not just short calls either. Long ones. Sometimes very long ones, half way down the freeway.

See it every day, selfish dead beats texting and on the phone while driving. Until the relevant authorities get real with the penalties , big fines and license suspension for texting, it will continue. How is it that driving at 0.05 alcohol blood level and above can get your license suspended, but the more dangerous practise of texting while driving is treated lightly.

Still , even if they bring in stiffer penalties like suspension, if you're fortunate enough to live in, and attend court in the Joondalup area, you'll have a great chance of getting E plates . They dish out extraordinary licenses like raffle tickets up this way. Much more difficult in Rockingham apparently. The source of that info !?, the RAC magazine. Its a joke , not a funny one though, J

Every second truck (small and big) driver
has a phone in their hand...especially saw that around
Canning Vale..

Texting is now the cause of about 30% of road accidents!

I don't know why the police don't get serious about it. Everyone knows that if you drive around for 1/2 hour you will lose count of how many people you see doing it, so why aren't the coppers out there chipping them? Put a few more police on the streets and start handing out tickets, they'll earn their salaries soon enough, and then plenty more. The poor gen Y's will go home whinging about who is going to pay their fine (after all, they get everything else done for them), but at least they'll stop texting, eventually. It's one sort of revenue raising that I wouldn't object to.

Get your kids to watch this. The slo-mo in the second half might get through.

Warning: graphic simulated car crash injury.

Harrow, I watched as much as I could of that vid (SES volunteer of a RCR unit), and very impressed with the filming but as soon as I saw the kids I had to stop watching - but I could imagine what the rest was like.

Very good vid, and about as close as it gets without using some CGI to show what the casualties & their injuries actually look like after a head-on accident, rarely would you recognise them. My only criticism is that (in many cases) the casualties (or body parts) are thrown from the vehicles, and would most likely be the case with an accident like that one. SMS'ing is the number 1 killer on the roads, and the stats only show where it can be proven. Many accidents aren't proven due to phones being damaged beyond repair so that the investigators can't get the last use time from them, so can't prove it.

We've made our 3 kids savvy in that if they see either one of us reach for our phones, they let us know all about it. I've been guilty on a very few occasions, but with trying to make sure that they don't fall for that habit - I've tried my best not to touch the phone in the car.

I think that most SMS accidents are tail-enders, but with head-ons it rarely results in only one person being injured/killed. If the car drifts right it's a head-on...if the car drifts left, the shock of the tires on the gravel usually result in an over-correction by the driver and ends up as a head-on. Impact from front-on accidents usually result in death or serious trauma to the brain & vital organs.

It's just not worth SMS'ing whilst driving!

now that is just the best line ever !!!

Texting while driving is 6 times more dangerous than drink driving. That's a scary thought

www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/

harrysurfer said...

Saffer said..

Texting while driving is 6 times more dangerous than drink driving. That's a scary thought

www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/

If I were a cop I could ping at least 10 p plate girl texters per day.
And yes I would let them bribe me and let them show me their boobies to try and get off the fine and then I would book them
OO

( . Y . )

I can smoke half a packet of Winny blues while eating a large ultimate whopper meal with a can of emu export in-between my legs and still stear with my knees!
What i cant do is take my eyes of the road stare at a frigging phone and text

seanhogan said...

harrysurfer said..

@Wa71
i would also get them to show me their privates, and yes i would still book them.
now wa71 how to do the privates?

on WA71's behalf :

({}) or (|) depending on the age and use

Or if you want to be a little more subtle... ( Y )

Mahanumah said..

seanhogan said...

harrysurfer said..

@Wa71
i would also get them to show me their privates, and yes i would still book them.
now wa71 how to do the privates?

on WA71's behalf :

({}) or (|) depending on the age and use

Or if you want to be a little more subtle... ( Y )

Spot on

poor relative said..

Pulled up to a guy at the lights today texting on his phone i was on the pushy. Twat
So i banged on the car window and shouted aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr at him. Almost hit his head on the roof.
Twat

Would you have done that if he was bigger than you?

Haha, fair enough.

As a keen motorcyclist I am horrified by the amount of ****wits I see on the phone texting.

Read a bit of this from a motorbike rider that has started a thread on ADV rider.



My number is up...
After 2 years and 25k miles on my trusty steed karma pulled my number last sunday.

i was slowing to negotiate a left hand turn off of a 2 lane road and was struck from behind by a young teen driver traveing appxox 65mph (in a 45). My speed was approximately 15mph and slowing, hyper lights going.

Long story short, i'm now parapalegic. T12 and L1 were crushed along with the spinal cord in the middle.

I'm heading to surgery today to fuse and reconstruct the physical support mechanism i need to at least be able to sit up in a wheelchair.

I believe in the power of prayer and would considerate it a great honor to be included in any prayers over the next few days.

Cheers,
Dale

advrider.com/f/threads/my-number-is-up.124960/


If more people were aware of the actual stories of people who have been maimed by people texting then there would be a lot less of it.

Not just young people...

In "The Age" theres a story about old mate running over a lollipop lady and drove off before police and ambos arrived so i assume it was in a school zone. 6 months in jail