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I saw a sticker on the back of a car today that had me chuckling the rest of the journey home. It was a big yellow warning sticker, clearly conveying an important safety notice.
And it read

SLOW: ON 9 POINTS

Brilliant :)
 
i been learning for what, two years? aint bothered doing my test yet. But i'm super chill when im driving, which surprised me. The great thing about driving is it reveals new sides of yourself you have never known.
 
The whole etiquette is wrong, I was just in a meeting of about 10 people and just one had not turned off their phone. It rang twice during the meeting with a naff and stupidly loud ring tone. The chair asked if she needed to take it? na she replied I don't know the number. Everyone else had had the decency to turn their phones off or to silent, just the one inconsiderate slob.

It is hard to resist the shrill ring tone of your phone, and that does not stop when you get into a car in the drivers seat.

The only solution if you are driving is to switch off your phone.

Simple effective and safe.
 
Innit. I am an old fart obvs, but how much of the information we get via our mobile connectivity is actually that important & significant enough to warrant an answer? Its proportionality we seem to have lost our grip on. As much as I give drivers abuse, I am seeing more and more cyclists scootling along with no hands, on the phone, weaving through lights and zebra xings. Its wholescale twattery
 
I think smartphones have added a whole new level of distraction possibilities as you can get incoming text messages and emails which seem to warrant attention.

There needs to be a drive to book drivers before folks in general are going to take it seriously.
 
Something that appears to be totally overlooked is decices; phones, sat navs etc. being plonked in the middle of the windscreen. I believe it is illeagal/MOT failure to have just a tiny chip in the line of sight, yet alone some huge great device
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I saw someone with an ipad stuck to their screen the other day. It wasn't quite in the centre but it did block a lot of the view.
 
10 years.

2.5 years per life.

Not a life sentence, so eligible for early release.

How the fuck is that right?

Lorry driver jailed over four-death crash - BBC News

A lorry driver who hit and killed a mother and her three children while using his phone behind the wheel has been jailed for 10 years.

Tomasz Kroker, 30, collided with the victims' car on the A34 in Newbury, Berkshire, on 10 August.

The 30-year-old, from Trajan Walk, Andover, Hampshire, pleaded guilty to four counts of causing death by dangerous driving on 10 October.

He was scrolling through music selections before the crash.
 
awful awful awful wanker.

they were doing 50mph on the way back from a camping trip.A fucking family camping trip - I cannot imagine how the family coped with this. I would be out for blood and senseless revenge I am afraid.and it kills me to feel that way
 
"Horrifying dashcam footage shows moment a Polish lorry driver hit and killed a mother and three children after scrolling on his phone at 50mph as her horrified partner watched from a car behind"

Says the mail online. Just be clear, he is Polish, as that makes any difference to the crime
 
There was also this bellend in the news recently.



Nobody seriously injured, apparently, thanks in part to the highly switched-on bit of driving by that Astra driver IMO. No such opportunity in the case above as the victims were three cars ahead.

And because of the pure luck that noone died, a mere eight months for that guy, a Romanian tipper truck driver.
14 per life, so 56 years to play with here.

:mad:
Are they allowed to run consecutively? I can't remember.
 
It's difficult to see how this sentence could have been made longer I guess, when you consider how long someone gets for manslaugter or murder. It would have been slightly better if he had got 10 years for each person, even had the sentances been concurrent. Lets also not forget this was about more than 4 deaths, there were also a number of serious injuries. I see a police officer on the lunch time news said that once he started using his mobile phone the lorry became a lethal weapon :facepalm: As soon as the engine is started, the thing becomes a lethal weapon. This is an important distinction as people should really have much more respect for the vehicle they are driving?
Sadly, I regret this will probably have no impact on the thousands that already use their mobiles while driving, after all, I only touch my phone occasionally and even then for a few seconds at a time. Besides, he killed people, I wont do that!

On a trivial note by comparison, I saw this recently :D Police: Woman rams squad car while taking topless selfie

Just how stupid do you need to be?
 
Are they allowed to run consecutively? I can't remember.

They can, but rarely do, (Max Clifford got his as consecutive cos he could couldn't be done for rape for his sexual assaults that would now be rapes, so to give him a fitting sentence he got them added together).

And I would not expect 56 years, he could easily have been given 25, out in 12.5 and that would probably stand up to any appeal.
 
14 per life, so 56 years to play with here.

:mad:
It is pretty rare (in this country) for people who commit multiple offences by one action to receive consecutive sentences. As I understand it, though, the fact that he's serving 4 sentences in parallel raises the bar somewhat when it comes to parole/early release.
 
If they'd been on bikes and not wearing helmets he'd have got a suspended sentence, or the jury would have simply let him off.
 
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