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[Smurph]

Fair point, I just think that potentially dropping a cigarette in your car/on your lap and the lack of visibility, particularly when people vape and drive, is a higher risk than the things you listed. Arguable, I know.

I still see so many people looking down at phones, particularly when in crawling/low speed traffic. The A465 at rush hour is rife for it.

I wish they’d do more to enforce the law for people on their phones while driving, it’s so dangerous and there really isn’t any need for it these days with how cars are set up.

One thing I used to love about working away was ignoring my phone while I was in the car.

 

[monmouth]

Fair point, I just think that potentially dropping a cigarette in your car/on your lap and the lack of visibility, particularly when people vape and drive, is a higher risk than the things you listed. Arguable, I know.

I still see so many people looking down at phones, particularly when in crawling/low speed traffic. The A465 at rush hour is rife for it.

The highways agency have deployed lorry cabs in some areas to try and nail wankers that can’t leave their phones alone while driving. I’d like to see draconian 5 year bans for it. But I’d get shot of all the distractions NJ mentions and block all phone signals into cars if it were down to me. I’d allow sat nav but can only be set and changed when the engine is off.

 

[monmouth]

I wish they’d do more to enforce the law for people on their phones while driving, it’s so dangerous and there really isn’t any need for it these days with how cars are set up.

One thing I used to love about working away was ignoring my phone while I was in the car.

A lot of the twats are texting Smurph or reading texts and web pages. I used to see them from the bus on the M32. Bloody scary.

 

[Neath_Jack]

A lot of the twats are texting Smurph

I knew Smurphy was popular but not that popular

 

[MrSwerve]

The highways agency have deployed lorry cabs in some areas to try and nail wankers that can’t leave their phones alone while driving. I’d like to see draconian 5 year bans for it. But I’d get shot of all the distractions NJ mentions and block all phone signals into cars if it were down to me. I’d allow sat nav but can only be set and changed when the engine is off.

You can do pretty much everything that you ‘need’ to do via voice commands now. Hell I even ‘text’ using speech to text via Apple CarPlay. There’s no need to look at your phone unless browsing the web or using social media (most likely).

The amount of thickos I see upload pics to social media with one arm on the wheel, showing the view of their commute, is ridiculous.

 

[Smurph]

A lot of the twats are texting Smurph or reading texts and web pages. I used to see them from the bus on the M32. Bloody scary.

Absolute arseholes the lot of them. I see it most days on the M4 back and forth to Cardiff

 

[Smurph]

I knew Smurphy was popular but not that popular

Not sure popular is the right word

 

[Smurph]

You can do pretty much everything that you ‘need’ to do via voice commands now. Hell I even ‘text’ using speech to text via Apple CarPlay. There’s no need to look at your phone unless browsing the web or using social media (most likely).

The amount of thickos I see upload pics to social media with one arm on the wheel, showing the view of their commute, is ridiculous.

It's so true, there really is no need for it. Are people that desperate they can't bare to put their phones down?

You'd think having kids in the car would be enough of a reason to concentrate on the road.

 

[Jack2jack]

The police are already using mobile phone and seatbelt detectors, havent seen them around these parts mind.
Another bugbear is drivers sitting in yellow box junctions, blocking the exits.
The one down by the SA1 entrance springs to mind.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

The government is currently consulting on revised punishments for some motoring offences. Knock yourselves out. It’s a riveting read.

Proposed changes to penalties for motoring offences

www.gov.uk

 

[Jack2jack]

The government is currently consulting on revised punishments for some motoring offences. Knock yourselves out. It’s a riveting read.

Proposed changes to penalties for motoring offences

www.gov.uk

That's quite a sobering read, no pun intended. Drug driving is a massive issue, by the looks of things. Shocking numbers.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

That's quite a sobering read, no pun intended. Drug driving is a massive issue, by the looks of things. Shocking numbers.

Agree.

 

[Niigata Jack]

But what you can’t smell is the number of drivers going past that have had a few sherbets. Hopefully they will bring in the new zero limit for drink driving.

True.

 

[Niigata Jack]

That I don’t understand. I use it as a crutch after smoking fags for 40 years and it’s worked a treat for me. It’s the act of inhaling then exhaling the smoke that I needed to replicate when I stopped and vaping does that. I genuinely don’t undertake those who have never smoked suddenly taking up vaping. Thats mental.

Nurse that comes here to nurse our youngest, caught covid just before NY she was nearly hospitalised due to breathing problems, she's not smoked since, she started back tonight and she says that she feels better than she has for years due to her not being able to smoke and she says that she's never gonna smoke again, there was a plus with her catching covid.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Fair point, I just think that potentially dropping a cigarette in your car/on your lap and the lack of visibility, particularly when people vape and drive, is a higher risk than the things you listed. Arguable, I know.

I still see so many people looking down at phones, particularly when in crawling/low speed traffic. The A465 at rush hour is rife for it.

Police could have a field day around 7:30 and later on the A465 the amount of people on their phones etc is incredible and the bulk of those doing so are women.