Comments on: SMS fear as female road deaths soar http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/07/27/sms-fear-as-female-road-deaths-soar/ The usability blog of John S. Rhodes Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:41:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Driving Fear Program. | 7Wins.eu http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/07/27/sms-fear-as-female-road-deaths-soar/#comment-208221 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:52:54 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/07/27/sms-fear-as-female-road-deaths-soar/#comment-208221 [...] [...] […] […]

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/07/27/sms-fear-as-female-road-deaths-soar/#comment-6028 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/07/27/sms-fear-as-female-road-deaths-soar/#comment-6028 Here in the UK, the government has tried to stop the increasing use of mobile phones whilst driving by making it a punishable offense (see BBC article <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3015610.stm" target="_blank">here</a>). This is fine in theory but the amount of road-users I see daily still using their mobiles is astonishing, the police seem powerless (or simply not interested enough) to deal with the problem. <br><br> Worse still are those drivers who stop virtually instantly in order to answer their phone. This in my opinion is an even more dangerous practise than the one the law set out to stop in the first place! Here in the UK, the government has tried to stop the increasing use of mobile phones whilst driving by making it a punishable offense (see BBC article here). This is fine in theory but the amount of road-users I see daily still using their mobiles is astonishing, the police seem powerless (or simply not interested enough) to deal with the problem.

Worse still are those drivers who stop virtually instantly in order to answer their phone. This in my opinion is an even more dangerous practise than the one the law set out to stop in the first place!

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