I was driving down Ruddington Lane in Nottingham. Just outside the old Becket school (currently being demolished because the school has moved) there is a chicane and 
speed bumps. We can only guess at whether the chicane/humps will be removed now they’re no longer needed.
I was on the side where you give way to oncoming traffic. Coming the other way – way beyond the last hump on that side (70m down the road if you measure it on Google Maps) – there was a car. On my side, a blue Corsa (reg. R493 OAU) had already stopped while I was 10-20 car lengths away from it. It could easily have gone (so much so, that it SHOULD have gone), but at this stage it was just “tut-tut-tut” and shaking your head territory.
When I pulled up behind I noticed it was occupied by two young girls. They were having a great old time – the driver was obviously texting and discussing the text with her passenger. She wasn’t aware of me behind – and she certainly didn’t see the other car flash its lights at her to go while it was STILL on the other side of that final speed bump.
The Corsa driver was of the ink-still-wet-on-licence age. Either she or her passenger live off that road, and one would hope neither of the pair’s parents condone this sort of behaviour – being significantly responsible for it in the first place.
The Corsa driver had stopped in the middle of the road predominantly to text. It was her only interest at that point. She was not aware of anything happening around her. And it is a precise illustration of what is wrong with many young drivers today, and shows why they have more fatal accidents than older drivers.
The insurance companies talk of “black box” supervision to get premiums down. Would it pick up this sort of attitude to driving? Absolutely not, and yet it is the biggest danger on our roads today.