I've been taking more notice over the past few months of drivers using mobile phones, for making / receiving calls and a lot of people sending / reading text messages whilst behind the wheel....all illegal and dangerous at times of course.
I've sat having coffee outside various places and observed them passing by oblivious to what they were doing and not a care in the world, it is something of a game I play when I'm sharing a coffee with a colleague / friend / client, a real ice breaker ;-).
I'm just back from a few days in London....I did not see one person holding a mobile phone whilst driving, I mean not one and I was looking everywhere, it stood out.
Do we not have an epidemic in our country, I think it is ridiculous, especially when I've seen many HGV and van drivers so called professional drivers using phones whilst cornering without indicators in many cases, I know the Garda are stretched but we do need a solution.
The link to use if mobile phones whilst driving has been proved as dangerous with one case known to me as reported in the papers with proof the driver (who survived by the way ) was on his phone at the time his jeep crossed and hit an oncoming motorists car, the other motorist was killed, the information came out at the inquest and he was naturally prosecuted.
Is it just me noticing now or have we got far worse ?
I've sat having coffee outside various places and observed them passing by oblivious to what they were doing and not a care in the world, it is something of a game I play when I'm sharing a coffee with a colleague / friend / client, a real ice breaker ;-).
I'm just back from a few days in London....I did not see one person holding a mobile phone whilst driving, I mean not one and I was looking everywhere, it stood out.
Do we not have an epidemic in our country, I think it is ridiculous, especially when I've seen many HGV and van drivers so called professional drivers using phones whilst cornering without indicators in many cases, I know the Garda are stretched but we do need a solution.
The link to use if mobile phones whilst driving has been proved as dangerous with one case known to me as reported in the papers with proof the driver (who survived by the way ) was on his phone at the time his jeep crossed and hit an oncoming motorists car, the other motorist was killed, the information came out at the inquest and he was naturally prosecuted.
Is it just me noticing now or have we got far worse ?