I’m sure this vid will have bee posted here before, it’s been doing the rounds.
But for those that havn’t seen it, don’t let your kids watch it, it’s fairly hard hitting.
My trade, I get to sweep up the pieces after fatalities like the one in this vid, and deal with the collision investigation lads regulary, so am fairly well qualified to say this vid is realistic.
Enjoy: youtu.be/9krX9fHAfHM
cieranc:
I’m sure this vid will have bee posted here before, it’s been doing the rounds.
But for those that havn’t seen it, don’t let your kids watch it, it’s fairly hard hitting.
My trade, I get to sweep up the pieces after fatalities like the one in this vid, and deal with the collision investigation lads regulary, so am fairly well qualified to say this vid is realistic.Enjoy: youtu.be/9krX9fHAfHM
Wow, its hard hitting alright, texting behind the wheel is my number 1 pet hate, always blow the horn and point at the phone when I see it going on.
On another not I’ve never understood these roadside ‘shrines’. The last place I’d want anyone to remember me would be the place I met a horrible end.
Blimmy that really is hard hitting 
switchlogic:
On another not I’ve never understood these roadside ‘shrines’. The last place I’d want anyone to remember me would be the place I met a horrible end.
I can’t remember where but I’ve seen one with actual lights around it so can only presume it’s rigged up to a car battery or something. The ones I least understand are where people have done it on the central reservation of busy dual carriageways it seems to greatly increase the likelihood of needing another in the near future.
Running a bit low on data use till tomoz so haveb’t seen it, but if its the one with the young girls in the car I have two opinions, 1) its a good, hard hitting vid, and will hopefully deter kids from messing around and actually concentrate on what they’re doing. 2) your paying ■■■■ all attention to what your doing, you ■■■■■■ up, you got a little banged around. Maybe it’ll teach you to pay attention when your in control of a ton plus of moving metal, serves you right. Also the lass that’s apparently dead? Lack of seatbelt, um, thankyou for improving the quality of the human gene pool.
Yes, I talk on the phone whilst driving. I have a very shiny headset that’s all voice activated, it’l read out texts and emails to me which is nice, hell I can even send emails and texts via the headset if I want to. However I’ve never used this. Fair enough, read stuff to me. But to expect me to dictate an message and specify sending address whilst driving? Think that can wait till I stop, I’d rather have my attention on my wagon, the road in front and the other (even if they’re dumb sometimes) people around me. If its really that important pull over.
A driver I used to know hit a car in Newcastle which came round a corner on the wrong side of road, the car ended up buried underneath the unit, when the dead young girl was pulled out there was an unfinsihed text on her mobile, which said “See you in the Metro Ce…” (Metro Centre) The lad admitted he would never be the same, even though he was totally blameless, heard later on that he had packed in driving because of it, as he just couldn’t hack it after that.
Stehinch:
Yes, I talk on the phone whilst driving. I have a very shiny headset that’s all voice activated,
Yes all well and good but it’s still distracting your attention.
It’s all about distraction.
Texting or phone is a distraction. Even the phone going off with a “beep” is a distraction.
Speeding reduces the time to react whilst distracted. Eyeing up the girls or trying to catch the eyes of a pedestrian friend reduces reaction time even further. Heated conversations with persons in or out of the vehicle are bad news, as are kids fooling around in the back seat.
Being half asleep, drunk, or doped up all reduce reaction times by a similar amount. Even driving whilst unwell has a negative effect.
I’ve been driving C+E for 22 years, and yet every driver I’ve ever met now takes their mobile into the cab with them, even if switched off.
Just leave the damned thing at home already, and let people trying to contact you in an emergency do it via your transport office, and the cab phone that autoswitches off when the parkbrake is released. If the firm has no in-cab device, then they are clearly a mickey mouse outfit for expecting you to engage in dialogue with your own device, which is supposed to be illegal. You took it out of your pocket, so it’s not proper “hands free” is it? 
99 out of 100 incoming beeps to a mobile are bullcrap messages anyway are they not? 
Why does everyone think they need one in the cab at all when it’s only going to be a distraction when there?
“Ooh Just gotta get this…” <CRUNCH!>
I agree with everything said on here against phone use being a distraction, but what about conversation with passengers? Or a car full of quiet(?) children, and one suddenly cries? A pretty ■■■■■■■ the pavement?
All distractions, so where do we draw the line?
I know that phone use can be proved, but conversation can’t.