Calls to seize drivers phones

[Curr946]

Hey folks,

Just read a sky news article about the possibility of the police seizing you phones if your caught using them while driving.

Whats your thoughts on that one?

Personally i think its extreme. What about those who light a cigarette and veer 3 lanes? 

Dangerous driving is dangerous driving.  If your using your phone, to text etc at the very least your careless drivings. And yes, i have done it in the past. (not proud of it).  This whole using a phone law should be scrapped and dealt with under existing laws names above.

http://news.sky.com/story/calls-for-police-to-seize-phones-used-illegally-by-drivers-10744411

[jonsie]

A bit extreme but it needs extreme measures. Fines and points aren't doing it, and yes, confiscate the cigarettes of those people too

[MI5]

If it saves lives and gets rhe message hammered home it can only be a good thing.

[Wa10]

Have to say I'm all for it.

Not a day goes by that I don't see at least a handful of drivers with phones to their ears...and, without exception, they are the same handful driving like absolute d***s!

It's really not difficult, nor expensive, to use your phone in-line with the law. Or even to stop the car before making/receiving a call.

[MI5]

Totally agree!

[jonsie]

The very people that do this absolutely deserve to lose their phone.

[Curr946]

Or... be charged with careless driving....

[Cleoriff]

Having worked in A/E and seen the death and destruction caused by drivers on their phones I would say it's about time!  Recent case of a lorry driver who wiped out a whole family as he was replying to a text sickened me.... Too much carnage caused on the roads.

Any vehicle on the road is a potential death trap.....people using cars as offices and social sites should be chucked in prison in my honest opinion..

[MI5]

Many people have to use their cars as offices these days but they should be doing so responsibly.

[jonsie]

But that is and always will be the problem...laws are for others not me. You think it's bad in England though? There are no laws here about using your phone whilst driving and as much as I try to instill it into my wife, she still does it, texting and talking!! People driving motor cycles with their two or three children clinging on and having a phone to their ear whilst driving one handed. It really is scary. Take their phones, hell take their vehicles and stop the needless carnage.

Or better yet, build into a vehicle an automatic signal blocker!