Caught this one earlier today and well, I’m in two minds.
The Jabra research, which surveyed over 2,000 consumers in the GB, shows that 93% of motorists are aware that using a handheld phone while at the wheel without a handsfree kit could now be treated as dangerous driving and carry a prison sentence of up to two years. Perhaps surprisingly 68% of GB motorists think that this penalty should be tougher, which would encourage drivers to stop using their handheld at the wheel. This is being driven by the fact that more than half of respondents had at one point or another felt endangered by phone addict drivers clearly holding their phones to their ear while driving.
OK. Actually, I’m not in two minds. I really do get alarmed nowadays when I see people driving whilst on the phone. I saw someone doing this just yesterday and he’d only narrowly missed the proverbial monther-and-child-in-a-pram at a traffic lights because his attention wasn’t on the road.
Tougher penalties? Yes.