The Market Rasen Mail has an article on Facebook and Twitter use behind the wheel. It seems that police in Devon & Cornwall are catching more and more motorists possessing phones with internet capability.
Inspector Richard Price, from the force’s roads policing unit, said: “With the new mobile phones, it is becoming more commonplace for people to use them to access social media than for texting while driving.
“The availability of information is sometimes too tempting to drivers and often they will be picking up the phone and updating their (Facebook) site.”
It’s frightening that people this stupid are even allowed out unsupervised, let alone permitted to drive cars. They even admit to it.
…research by the RAC had shown one in five motorists in the south-west had admitted to checking social media alerts whilst driving…
So up to 20% of people on the roads down that way are liable to be surfing while they are driving. I’d wager it is even higher around London and in the south-east.
Inspector Price summed up the whole problem surrounding driver behaviour on the roads – and that would include the behaviour which kills all the little chavs everyone is always prattling on about:
A minority of drivers have a complacent and sometimes arrogant attitude to driving.
He didn’t define “minority” in this case.