Banned for mobile phone use.

Redline said:
Have you seen that program on BBC2. Those guys earn their corn. In football, its not so much the payers but the agents that cause this salary situation. Many players in the PL shouldn't get in a league 2 team....
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No mate i haven't. When I worked for Merc I sold a CL AMG to a player called Don Hutchison. I'd never heard of him but my dad got all excited saying he's been a Scottish international player and played for West Ham blar blar blar. He was playing for Luton at the time and had been put on half wages as the club was struggling. When he came to collect the car he rang his accountant to make sure he had enough funds to swipe his card, I mean really???? The guy didn't even know what he had in his bank account!! This transaction was down to is account as he has been advised to downgrade his car from the Bentley he'd recently bought. The Merc was second hand and a snip.at £70k!! To be fair to him though he was actually a nice fella albeit thick as you like, he signed a West Ham shirt and posted it to me for my son who was over the moon being a football fan.
 
If you are using a hands free phone and are subsequently involved in an accident you will be fined for either undue care and attention or dangerous driving (one or the other not sure).
Speeding fines are now linked to salary, I guess it is only a matter of time before this applies elsewhere.

As for premiership football players being paid large sums, good luck to them because I'd not refuse it anymore than the [stuffy] person who wins the lottery for a couple of quid. Not that I play or even like the game mind (football or lottery :D). That's life.
 
I was actually on a site in Great Portland Street yesterday. I spotted two using mobiles and one female in a very big Merc GL.. with what looked like sparky stones all around the steering wheel. and yes she was on her phone, window down and talking clearly into it. One of the work site guys shouted at her and made her jump. cruel but it does p*** a lot of people off. I expect she was late for luncheon and was calling the butler to get directions.
 
Everything has been said in this post, but for me the scariest moment is looking in the rear view mirror, and seeing the driver behind on the phone. Especially when I'm in the Z3 or E30!

I move over, let them go.
 
MalcQV said:
If you are using a hands free phone and are subsequently involved in an accident you will be fined for either undue care and attention or dangerous driving (one or the other not sure).
Speeding fines are now linked to salary, I guess it is only a matter of time before this applies elsewhere.

As for premiership football players being paid large sums, good luck to them because I'd not refuse it anymore than the [stuffy] person who wins the lottery for a couple of quid. Not that I play or even like the game mind (football or lottery :D). That's life.
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One of our drivers was involved in a major accident last year which concluded in the death of another driver. Our driver is awaiting sentencing as he was on a HANDSFREE phone call.
 
Grumps said:
One of our drivers was involved in a major accident last year which concluded in the death of another driver. Our driver is awaiting sentencing as he was on a HANDSFREE phone call.
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That's unfortunate for all :(
 
Grumps said:
One of our drivers was involved in a major accident last year which concluded in the death of another driver. Our driver is awaiting sentencing as he was on a HANDSFREE phone call.
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There was an event a few years ago where an artic ploughed into a line of stationary traffic resulting in fatalities. At point of impact the artic driver had still not taken his foot off the throttle. The driver had been on a hands free call to his mum for a long while and as a result he was oblivious to his surroundings and in essence his mindset at at the time was that he was sat in his mum's front room chatting. Hands free or otherwise, don't take/make that call, pull over and park up safely in a lay-by or service station and do so.
 
I often ride my little motorbike to cut through very heavy holiday traffic. Filtering through, between rows of slow moving or stationary cars opens your eyes a bit as to what is going on in the drivers seat.
In my experience, not wanting to stereotype, but, young female drivers, in 'fashion cars' ie. fiat 500's, mini's etc. are the worst, some even have a tablet on their knee !! or dancing, 'phone users are usually 'white van man', 'top end' saloons' ie. Audi, Bmw. Merc etc. 'Mummies' are one of the scariest, either on the phone, usually texting, of facing the back seat, dealing with their offspring, or eating.
If you say anything to them, you will be met with a tirade of abuse.
The police could make a killing, clamping down on this dangerous crime, if they tried patrolling on unmarked little motorbikes that can easily push between traffic, these are not rare occurrences, I see it nearly every time I'm out, and I'm not particularly looking too hard.
 
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black fingernail said:
I often ride my little motorbike to cut through very heavy holiday traffic. Filtering through, between rows of slow moving or stationary cars opens your eyes a bit as to what is going on in the drivers seat.
In my experience, not wanting to stereotype, but, young female drivers, in 'fashion cars' ie. fiat 500's, mini's etc. are the worst, some even have a tablet on their knee !! or dancing, 'phone users are usually 'white van man', 'top end' saloons' ie. Audi, Bmw. Merc etc. 'Mummies' are one of the scariest, either on the phone, usually texting, of facing the back seat, dealing with their offspring, or eating.
If you say anything to them, you will be met with a tirade of abuse.
The police could make a killing, clamping down on this dangerous crime, if they tried patrolling on unmarked little motorbikes that can easily push between traffic, these are not rare occurrences, I see it nearly every time I'm out, and I'm not particularly looking too hard.
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All true, but if the police stopped every car they saw in London to speak to the driver the city would soon be gridlocked.

Tony.
 
The amount of people I see from my cab looking down messing with mobiles one way or the other is eye watering. I have to say the majority seem to be young and middle age woman.
 
Women by far the worst offenders over here too Dave, without doubt.

Tony.
 
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