Dangerous things people do when driving

I'm not a driver, but I am often a passenger, which gives me the opportunity to observe. I also walk to work, thus I have plenty to say about the 'thoughtless' --I do want to use a different phrase) driver.

My expreiences has told me that people who use mobiles whilst driving really don't see a problem with it, but, if it were not for other observant drivers, their stupid actions would have ended in tradgedy.
My idea is to get children nagging, and we all know how good they are at that! School, Dance class, Brownies, Cubs, and not forgetting TV such as Newsround, we need children to nag their parents, uncles, aunties and friends. Do Not Use The Telephone When Driving!!! perhaps, when we've solved that, we can get them to use their indicators--left-right!

Sounds to me like someone is a bit jeolous of the person in the ferrari and has nothing else better to do than go whining to the police for matters that dont concern them and have nothing to do with them...

By rights, turning up your car stereo or singing to a song or changing the track on a CD should be punishable by law. That is how bad the rules are getting now.

Dobbo996, I was in the same situation as Bryster. Only the biker I needed to avoid when I was pulling out was a teenage scumbag riding a GSX-R 750. Tyre skid marks on the road from 100yds away to around 200 yards down the road gave me the confirmation I needed. He was really giving it some in a 20 zone.

Audacity to turn around infront of lots of pedestrians, once I'd pulled over, to thrape it back to me, ram his bike into my door and wreck my door with his tyre and continue to swear, shout and threaten my life. To the point where he stopped shouting to breathe and I said "If you were doing 20 this wouldn't have happened". I promptly got punched in the face and he rode off sharpish.

Happily Karma is a b**** and 3 months later this 19yr old scumbag thraped his stolen bike, drunk, without a helmet into the side of a 21 year old female students car. He died after going through the driver and passenger side windows without his hands and was stopped by a wall.

Can't believe that you can actually buy a dvd player with a screen that fits in where your radio goes. dumb asses out there will actually watch them whilst driving.

Lorry drivers are notorious for not only using their mobile phones but watching tv and dvds while driving and I am not joking .

My father just hit his head about my cell phone ww

It is dangerous you can also get in trouble by the internet sites on the cell

I recently traveled by coach up the M6, in an hour I observed in cars overtaking us, a Mercedes driver shaving, a youth in a Cleo consuming a Macdonald's meal with coffee, a strange looking young man doing air guitar (with incredible enthusiasm) and lastly, two men in a Vauxhall with the passenger giving close attention to the drivers troser fastening area!
Do they not see a coachfull of faces staring down at them?

I saw a biker do a wheelie past jct 19 of the M60 last week dobbo996...wasn't you was it?!!

The police should crush your car if you're doing something seriously dangerous behind the wheel. You can always eat before or after your journey. And for mobile phones, aren't there hands-free kits or you could put the phone on the dashboard with the speaker on? Either way, you'd have both hands for driving!

Wow, and I thought this was only a problem in the US! Have read all the driving related links and we are suffering with all the same idiot driver problems here and (it seems) all in the past maybe 7 or so years. Right about when everybody had a cell phone!

Bryster - you have no idea how fast that bike was going, unless of course you had a speed camera strapped to your head. He may have been speeding. He may have been travelling at 30. Just look more carefully next time.