{"id":5431,"date":"2011-03-18T23:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2011-03-18T23:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T23:38:18","slug":"surfing-whilst-driving-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5431","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Whilst Driving in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

“The availability of information is sometimes too tempting to drivers and often they will be picking up the phone and updating their (Facebook) site.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s frightening that people this stupid are even allowed out unsupervised, let alone permitted to drive cars. They even admit to it.<\/p>\n

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…research by the RAC had shown one in five motorists in the south-west had admitted to checking social media alerts whilst driving… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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A minority of drivers have a complacent and sometimes arrogant attitude to driving. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He didn’t define “minority” in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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