{"id":5369,"date":"2011-03-14T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2011-03-14T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:27:54","slug":"another-flash-of-the-blindingly-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5369","title":{"rendered":"Another Flash of the Blindingly Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article in The Journal (Ireland)<\/a> has to take pole position in the race to find a statement of the blindingly obvious.<\/p>\n

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Eating and drinking while driving a \u2018major distraction\u2019 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, really? But when you then look at the next part:<\/p>\n

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[the spokesman] said he didn\u2019t expect people to do away with their morning coffee on the drive to work, but urged drivers to be careful and act sensibly, in particular with hot beverages. <\/p>\n

You certainly shouldn\u2019t be fumbling with the cup while you are on the move. A simple incident like the lid coming off and coffee spilling could become disastrous. <\/p>\n

Other distracting behaviour admitted to by some of the 22,000 people surveyed included reading while driving (14.6 per cent), brushing hair (7.5 per cent) and changing clothes (3.4 per cent).<\/p>\n

Nearly a quarter of the women that took part admitted to applying makeup while driving while 4 per cent of men said they sometimes used an electric shaver on the go. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They like to take it to the limit in Ireland, don’t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article in The Journal (Ireland) has to take pole position in the race to find a statement of the blindingly obvious. Eating and drinking while driving a \u2018major distraction\u2019 No, really? But when you then look at the next part: [the spokesman] said he didn\u2019t expect people to do away with their morning coffee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t