Too Much Of A Coward To Confront A Builder – CF22UOM

Or so many trolls claim. This chap, apart from the phone use, was perfectly alright, btw. I don’t think it’s fair to generalise about builders.

Stationary phone drivers are still dangerous for many reasons:

1) The people using their phones when stationary are often the same people using them when moving. Being caught whilst stationary is a co-incidence, not a defence. It’s easier for me to catch them when stopped, but so many were also seen using their phones when moving.
2) They are entirely unaware of people crossing the road around them. See here where a phone driver almost hits someone in the queue

This is why texting in the queue is DANGEROUS! You deserve to lose your driving license if you do so. #fatal5 #reported pic.twitter.com/V6GGSYpnne

— PhoneKills (@phonekills) February 9, 2022

See this other tweet where a 5 year old child is almost hit by a phone driver who was stationary:
https://x.com/cmdkenyon/status/1724483042046067052?s=20
3) They are entirely unaware of filtering cyclists and motorcyclists, despite the Highway Code requiring us to be aware of this.
4) Phone distraction lasts for a good time after you put the phone away. Even if you’re only using the phone in each traffic queue at each junction (which is highly unlikely), then you’re constantly topping up your mental distraction and are basically as disabled as a drunk driver.
5) Phone driving is worse than drink driving for distraction rates, and that’s why it’s part of the #Fatal4 behaviours that police target heavily.
6) Here’s a police officer telling you that he has been on the scene for 3 fatal RTCs involving drivers who were stationary whilst using their phones, and then moved off and caused a collision: https://twitter.com/markandcharlie/status/1604073330751197184?s=20&t=uj8sgu7spu4cTyDqqqds2g
7) Policing phone drivers will help them stop other traffic offences too – it’s vanishingly rare that someone only breaks a single traffic law like mobile phone use.
8) Parliament recently chose to strengthen the mobile phone law around stationary phone use because it’s dangerous and the science supports this.

I’m really not interested in this nonsense of “it’s not dangerous when stationary, because it clearly is and it’s clearly still very appropriate to catch these drivers.

You can report road crime online here in London: https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/rti/rti-a/report-a-road-traffic-incident/
In the rest of the UK you can use the NextBase Portal to find your local force submission portal:
https://nextbase.co.uk/national-dash-cam-safety-portal/

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