Texting while driving...Don't do it..

itsme said:
Some people never heed the warnings do they?:wall:
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No..And what is more sad, I was reading a bit about the law and what happens with people when they commit such an offence. The charge is driving with undue care. The penalty is anything from a £50 fine to a max of 6 months at Her Majesties pleasure.....Just don't do it is what I say. At the end of the day when you are driving you are in charge of a very potentialy dangerous weapon............:mad::mad:
 
Madxgraphics said:
No..And what is more sad, I was reading a bit about the law and what happens with people when they commit such an offence. The charge is driving with undue care. The penalty is anything from a £50 fine to a max of 6 months at Her Majesties pleasure.....Just don't do it is what I say. At the end of the day when you are driving you are in charge of a very potentialy dangerous weapon............:mad::mad:
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:thumb: Exactly "in a nut shell":mad:
 
The main problem is that the punishment for using a phone when driving is just not severe enough. Although the max is 6months in jail it is hardly ever implemented. Occasionally it is used for offenders who have been caught several times but the usual fine is £60 and 3 points on the license.

IMO the punishment, even for first offenders, should be £1000 fine and a twelve month ban. Only then would people think twice about using the phone whilst driving. I see it several times EVERY day.
 
nivrip said:
The main problem is that the punishment for using a phone when driving is just not severe enough. Although the max is 6months in jail it is hardly ever implemented. Occasionally it is used for offenders who have been caught several times but the usual fine is £60 and 3 points on the license.

IMO the punishment, even for first offenders, should be £1000 fine and a twelve month ban. Only then would people think twice about using the phone whilst driving. I see it several times EVERY day.
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I think the whole punishment thing needs to be looked at seriously..I have just read a report where a guy spent the day in the pub and got into his car to drive home, not only been p*ssed, he was on his mobile when he lost control. On the pavement was a young mum, pregnant with twins, pushing her two young kids in a pram, walking with her mum. He hit them and killed them. Thats 6 people. At his trial he was given 1 year suspended and a 12 month ban. The Judge replied to the sentance by saying. "His intention was to drink drive, not kill" and could only impose the sentance he had.....
 
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Woohoo :D

What?

It wasn't meant to be funny?

Oh.

Ahem.

I see pillocks every day using mobiles in one form or another whilst driving, from most every walk of life.

A well made film.

But they all spoke funny.
 
floppybootstomp said:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Woohoo :D

What?

It wasn't meant to be funny?

Oh.

Ahem.

I see pillocks every day using mobiles in one form or another whilst driving, from most every walk of life.

A well made film.

But they all spoke funny.
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Of all the people I would have said your response woul have been the most intuative or most educationla. Of all the peoiple I thought you would have come back with a decent reply, but you didn't..In this case Floppybootstomp you suck big time..I am shocked...........:o
 
Madxgraphics said:
Of all the people I would have said your response woul have been the most intuative or most educationla. Of all the peoiple I thought you would have come back with a decent reply, but you didn't..In this case Floppybootstomp you suck big time..I am shocked...........:o
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And you sir, take life too seriously.

If you can't laugh at death, destruction and heartbreak then you'd probably go quite insane.

You say I suck big time eh?

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here, seem to recall another thread recently where my humour was criticised.

My trouble is, Mr Mad, is I'm not like everybody else, never have been.

Have a nice day :)
 
floppybootstomp said:
And you sir, take life too seriously.

If you can't laugh at death, destruction and heartbreak then you'd probably go quite insane.
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Erm sorry to say, but 2 years ago I was in a car crash much the same as in this vid. I lost 2 of my oldest bestest mates because of somebody elses stupidity. So yeah in some cases I take life extremely seriously....

Anyway as for you sucking, I honestly thought you would hav made a better response. And obviously our outakes on life and death are very different.....Sh*t happens
 
As soon as I saw the baby I switched it off, I don't care how important it was to watch, it made if SICK to the stomach
 
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Madxgraphics said:
Erm sorry to say, but 2 years ago I was in a car crash much the same as in this vid. I lost 2 of my oldest bestest mates because of somebody elses stupidity. So yeah in some cases I take life extremely seriously....

Anyway as for you sucking, I honestly thought you would hav made a better response. And obviously our outakes on life and death are very different.....Sh*t happens
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I will make whatever response I feel like making, sorry if I didn't meet your expectations.

I am 58 years old, do you think I haven't experienced perhaps one or two not very nice things in that time?

I once pulled an entire family, covered in blood, from a car wreck on the A2 at Falconwood at midnight and I got covered in claret, had just finished a gig and observed a head-on collision. I was first at the scene, blah blah blah... So what?

The girls in that educational film were all aged about the same as my three daughters, two of whom drive.

You will notice - or did you? - that I said it was a well made film.

You may also have observed that I think drivers using mobiles whilst controlling a vehicle to be not not very worthy human beings - pillocks.

And I also made light of it. And I will probably do the same again as all my life I have rarely taken anything seriously, much to my so-called superiors and mentors' chagrin.

I will say this, if that film was shown on mainstream TV it would certainly have more impact than Jimmy Saville telling us to clunk-click or that motor cyclist who gets whacked in the boatrace/peach with a hammer, who remembers that?

Kudos to Gwent police for showing an RTA for what it's really like. The emergency services people could tell us all a million stories of nastiness. Let's hope we don't become part of one of those stories.
 
floppybootstomp said:
Kudos to Gwent police for showing an RTA for what it's really like. The emergency services people could tell us all a million stories of nastiness. Let's hope we don't become part of one of those stories.
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Ere ere! I agree...I have used my phone in past whilst driving. I will never do it again. I would if I had the choice leave my phone at home, unfortuantely I can't when I have my son with me incase anything goes wrong. Ie breakdown, flat tyre etc. It certainly has made me more aware now!! Thanks MadX
 
I was doing alright up until i saw the father( i think it was the father) sliding down the wall and i felt so sorry for him.
Good stuff MadX....it was very thought provoking. The whole movie was really well done.
 
Well after reading all the responses I don't think I'm going to click that link..:(
 
They should show this in every school on a huge big screen.
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Wow a powerful video indeed. But lessons will not be learned,not from the young anyway; they are invincible----or so they think.

historian
 
historian said:
Wow a powerful video indeed. But lessons will not be learned,not from the young anyway; they are invincible----or so they think.

historian
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Tell me, when you were 20 years old - were you invincible? :)
 
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