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A second different timing and two vehicles travelling at 60ish (slightly slower because we were on a bend) each would have had a head on collision - and I'd imagine the last thing I'd have known was being very angry briefly before hitting a windscreen.
Not been a fan of people driving using their phones while driving since
I often pull in to a lay-by, side road ,garage forecourt or similar and catch up with my calls -I NEVER use the phone whilst on the road as such .
Despite my very clearly and consciously pulling of the road etc does this mean that if I had an accident 20 miles further down the road 30 minutes later that I am on dangerous ground ?
How does this work ?
I f I was driving to York from London and stopped at Luton to make a call would I be prosecuted for an accident in Yorkshire if my last call was 3 hours earlier ?
There was no proof that she had been on her phone at the time of the crash, it was just proven that she had used her phone a minute beforehand. As far as leniency, thats for the judge to decide and they did and she went to prison. I suggest that having to live with it is horrendous for anyone, regardless of whether you agree with the sentence. This is a lovely person, not someone who would hurt a fly maliciously.
what should you get for daydreaming then?
I wasn’t in the car with her. I offered the example up as a real world example of this mistake impacting people, in this case both the victim and the perpetrator. Her behaviour is indefensible but we’ve all done similar things (est, text, drink, put a cd in etc etc) and my example demonstrates that simple decisions can have life changing impacts.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/oct/31/lorry-driver-tomasz-kroker-tracey-houghton-mobile-a34-dashcam-video
We may be able to use our phone in our sleep, but that usually doesn't put people at greatly increased risk. This guy was looking at his phone for a few seconds of scrolling to change song - which probably requires less concentration than reading or replying to a text, or eating your lunch, or doing your make up.
Just because a lot of people do it without crashing, it doesn't make it okay, and equating it with other bad drivers doesn't make it better either - driving while texting is equally as dangerous, idiotic and even childish as going at 50 through a 30 because you like the noise your car makes when it goes vroom vroom.
Can't a text can wait for one minute while you pull over?
I can't change the cd in my car and maintain absolute concentration on the road, so I either pull over or I turn the stereo off. It's not much to ask, is it?
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Of course... the new law would be in cases where using a phone contributed to the death of a pedestrian ... so if the elderly can't actually drive safely any more and kill someone why is that "better" than the drunk.
The drunk have impaired judgement, lacking even the legal ability to agree to flap body parts at one another, but get life in prison if they run someone over... so the old, if their ageing has reduced their ability to drive safely probably had years to notice that, so knew they were incapable - in my opinion, worse...
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
The 'friend' = you.
The 'druggie/drunk' = 6 year old child/labrador puppy
Using their phone = wanking
Country lane = road by a primary school