what a load of tosh anyway that law is. talking on your mobile is dangerous.....
aye so it is, maybe a bit. so is looking at beautiful women as you drive past, lighting a cigarette while driving, sneezing, looking at all these massive billboards of semi-naked birds advertising stuff. maybe you just fell out with the wife and are really angry and have to drive to work, and your concentration is not really on driving. maybe you have sat-nav and it keeps distracting you (how it is illegal to talk on a mobile but still use sat nav is way beyond me!!!!!!!)
how many times you driven along behind a van / lorry with a load that doesn't look safely attached. nobody rants about that. what about the fact that passing other cars with 2 feet distance between you at 60 miles an hour gives a collision speed of 120 miles per hour, and this is accepted in this safety society?
this country has become safety obsessed, to the point of complete madness. LIFE IS DANGEROUS. people get hurt - stuff happens. you can't legislate for everything, and if people attempt it, as is happening just now, we all end up living in an open prison.
i've read posts on this thread that amaze me. some people here are free thinkers and i applaude you, but some others are just sheep. so easily brainwashed. to the sheep i ask you - now that you will not use your mobile while driving, do you also refuse to change the channel on your radio or press the buttons to move to the next cd track because your eyes have to leave the road, do you never eat a bar of chocolate or drink some water while driving. do you never look at anything as you drive by, but focus exclusively on the road? have you really thought it all through, or do you just accept whatever the authorities tell you to do????
jeez
and to the original poster - i can't believe you got done for that. i feel sorry for you. you were committing no crime in real terms and were causing no danger to a soul.
oh and by the way i use a bluetooth headset always, and have done since before the ban came in, but was i more dangerous when i held the phone to my ear - i think not.
getting drunk and driving is a bad thing, but talking on the phone..........
lets get real.