Lorry driver given four year sentence after fatal

nomiS36:

jakethesnake:
it’s the phone call itself so holding the phone or being hands free makes no difference imo.

This is ridiculous. It’s no different to having a conversation with a passenger (still legal) or listening to BBC R4 and screaming at the person talking (like I do) :blush:

It’s the idiots texting and reading who take their attention off the road. You will notice the big craze against phones started about the time when “smart” phones came in and rightly so. Before there were hands-free things too and it wasn’t an issue. Before handheld phones there used to be car manufacturer installed phones in cars, remember?

ACtually talking to a live person in the car is worse because you have to look at them from time to time