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don't seem to have made **** all difference to some folk. Saw several on my way in this morning and its only a ten minute drive.
Laws have always been there to deal with drivers on the phone etc. Enforcement is the issue. (though it's cheaper to make a rule than enforce it and you get all of the nice publicity)
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don't seem to have made **** all difference to some folk. Saw several on my way in this morning and its only a ten minute drive.
Law doesn't matter if there's never anyone around to enforce it.
Until they have a well publicised campaign to enforce the law and given out lots of 6 point penalties its going to make no difference and it's not.
Old law was fine. Problem was ALWAYS that everyone's knows they'll <almost definitely> get away with it. 3 points and £100 would be a reasonable and proportionate punishment, if there was a reasonable chance of getting busted for it. See; effectiveness of average speed camera areas vs non speed camera controlled areas. Same punishment, different enforcement risk.
Yep, no point making the penalties stiffer when hardly anyone is getting fined. Not paying due care and attention has always been an offence to my memory.
Catching mobile phone users would be like shooting fish in a barrel but you need police on the roads to catch them.
I'm not nessesarily blaming the police here, as what few there are in the road are more often than not dealing with emergencies.
Maybe if the fines went directly to the force, the cash would pay for dedicated units to cope with all the traffic offences.
It does seem to have a bit of a difference here, I see less people on the phone than I used to.
One thing I have noticed is a lot of people seem to pull over, hardly off the road, make or answer a call and then drive off again - often not checking very thoroughly that somebody might be overtaking on a bike. I have had 2 near misses recently and am even more careful now.
Bit of drop here thanks to the campaign but still see one or two but then you always will.
See it a lot round here, what's strange is most of em seem to be in new cars that come with hands free systems fitted and they still can't be arsed..
There is a radio ad campaign (at least on our local radio) to promote/support the law change.
I thought it was pretty good because it says something like: [i]"Yeah we know you are addicted to your phone. So are we. So put it out of sight where you won't be tempted. In your glovebox"[/i]
Nice honest approach.
Only problem I can forsee is people driving while trying to get a phone out of the glovebox for that [i]one really important thing[/i].
Well that and not knowing where to put their gloves of course.