Lucky Ka

Thanks for sharing. Clearly this is a case where the copper did the right thing by giving a warning. A warning makes you both grateful and remorseful. A fine would makes you resentful.

Mobydisc said...

Thanks for sharing. Clearly this is a case where the copper did the right thing by giving a warning. A warning makes you both grateful and remorseful. A fine would makes you resentful.

Something the multinovas cant do...

GypsyDrifter said...

This is my "PET HATE" in WA....manly because I have been nearly cleaned up
(and that's no exaggeration) about 6 times in the last 3 months.....

For some reason people on the phone want to come into my lane while I am still there and I get such a shock when I see a car coming in on me I end up getting really anger and I am not an angry person...

We don't do most things in life because they are illegal
So why do people have to talk on the phone when driving
Are they all above the law....would they go out and kill someone
because thats illegal too.

Hmmmm...lets see driving while on the phone can = death....

Not happy Jan!
Sorry for my rant....

Dont be sorry for that GD.

doggie said...



Dont be sorry for that GD.

Well doggie and pr
I feel like I should suck it up and deal with it...
I have tried but I can't...and I don't quiet understand the
mentality of drivers on the phone.
Is their phone call more important thank my life...
Because that's what it feels like for me...

But you see my life is not in or on my phone. I actually never have mine turned on and it is at the bottom of my bag ....for just incase I need it...

Call me old fashioned....

and besides...a hand free set these days is very cheap

I use the aforementioned (bluetooth) hands free. I don't mind answering whoever calls, but I don't make outgoing calls whilst driving. Bear in mind that 95%(ish) of my driving is on country roads, so traffic is seldom a problem.

How's the knee coming on Ka?

We tend to let phones & things dominate our life.

I get confused.
How is talking on the phone any different to talking to a passenger, with a durrie or pie in one hand, and the steering wheel in the other?
Texting i do understand- that's just dumb, it takes your eye off the road.
Interestingly, it's not against the law to use a cb radio while driving. How is that different?
I wonder if it has anything to do with (dare i say it) revenue and the burden of proof?

fatwa said...

I get confused.
How is talking on the phone any different to talking to a passenger, with a durrie or pie in one hand, and the steering wheel in the other?
Texting i do understand- that's just dumb, it takes your eye off the road.
Interestingly, it's not against the law to use a cb radio while driving. How is that different?
I wonder if it has anything to do with (dare i say it) revenue and the burden of proof?

I have noticed some people, when talking on the phone, lose focus on other things and just concentrate on the phone call. Others seem to be able to speak, listen, and still notice things around them. I have seen this happen in an office, let alone the people I have seen that drive like this.

Unfortunately, the one's that can't notice anything around them while on the phone also drive.

I think the phone call engages the brain a bit more than smoking or eating a pie.

After having been flashed 5km over the limit and being kindly fined 150$ I was quite happy to be able to photograph a cop (gendarme here) driving and using his personal mobile phone...

Sent a copy to the local paper, printed first page....how good........[}:)][}:)]

if one talks to their hamburger or cigarette, then doing those things are probably as bad as talking on the phone while driving

gazza said...

Mark _australia said...

Good message, but I call faked IMHO

There is like 5m+ of rail behind the car - I reckon up to about 10m - and there would be an upright support behind the car, yet the front end damage suggests the first thing the bumper hit was the upright it is against now. The first upright would have stopped it, or done a heap more damage.

plus how high is that freaking barrier Fake for sure!!!

I was thinking the same Gaz, then I thought the road looked higher than the dirt so maybe it's right, anyway I'd vote setup.

You don't think that that OTHER dent was where the car took out the first upright when it still had maximum speed? That would explain it being so far into the rail...

Mark _australia said...

Wineman said...

Good message, but I call faked IMHO

There is like 5m+ of rail behind the car - I reckon up to about 10m - and there would be an upright support behind the car, yet the front end damage suggests the first thing the bumper hit was the upright it is against now. The first upright would have stopped it, or done a heap more damage.

I'll call it as a real photo, those barriers are near useless for end-on collisions, the uprights have no substantive value apart from holding the rail up, so the rail can do all the work. If you start looking at the old armco barriers they are starting to reinforce the ends with collapsible barriers or heavy reinforced steel plates to prevent this type of barrier intrusion into vehicles. There was a really bad crash down near Bunbury about 6-7 years ago where an out of control car clipped the end of a similar bridge barrier and it ripped the back half of the car clean off, and the poor girl sitting in the back

Armco barriers are now losing favour to the wire rope barriers, but that's also another story. I wouldn't want to hit the wire rope ones on a bike...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1313637/Miracle-escape-sleeping-driver-impaled-car-crash-barrier.html

But back to the original topic, fo a wee road safety experiment; next time you see someone talking on their phone and driving, don't race past them, sit off and watch how bad their driving is, poor speed control, weaving within the lane, sloppy lane changes, poor reflexes to changing traffic lights etc. Sure there are plenty that can drive whilst eating/talking/smoking/on the phone (or all of the above) but most can't, I have no idea why talking on a phone is different to talking to a passenger but there seems to be a difference. Anyone seen any reasearch on it?

Dazza65 said...

How about this, I was in the CBD in Brisbane with bumper to bumper traffic, hadnt moved for 5 minutes and my wife called my mobile so I answered to let her know I was going to be late due to traffic. I wouldnt have answered it otherwise. A cop walking down the street knocked on my window and booked me $200. My argument was that I wasnt moving and hadnt done so for ages. Cop wouldnt have a bar of it. Felt like saying go and book the idiots on the motorway I see every day swerving all over the place while on their mobiles......aargh!

I would have taken that to court, I recon you would have won that one.