No, really?
One more statement of the bleeding obvious to round off the month – though there is still a day to go yet – from The Journal in Ireland.
Apparently, in this hot news the RSA warns that using your mobile when driving results in an increased risk of collision. Well, knock me down with a feather!
The article also says that driver distraction is “thought” to play a role in 20-30% of all road collisions and using your mobile can increase the risk by four times. I hate it when numerical data are linked by words like “thought” – because they become the kind of data you can’t process with a computer. However, the unintentional implication from this is that sometimes it is OK to use the phone because it doesn’t always play a role.
If you’re going to come out with such statements of the obvious, at least state the most obvious thing of all and be done with it: doing anything other than concentrating on driving is dangerous.
And introduce suitable penalties for doing it. Forget silly videos and “awareness” courses. Bring back darkened rooms and lengths of rubber hose.