Lose the phone or get off the road: that’s the message texting drivers need to hear | Martin Porter
Drivers will change their behaviour only when they know for sure all loopholes are closed, and magistrates have no choice but to disqualify them
In a survey carried out by the RAC, 31% of motorists admitted to the illegal use of a handheld mobile phone in the previous 12 months. The figure does not surprise many of us who cycle through our major towns and cities and get a good view while we glance at those driving around us. It is perhaps less obvious from another car, yet still if a vehicle is weaving unpredictably as it makes its way down a motorway the explanation, more often than not, turns out to be the driver using a phone.
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Source: Guardian Transport
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