{"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":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #800000\">Market Rasen Mail has an article  on Facebook and Twitter use behind the wheel. It seems that police in Devon &amp; Cornwall are catching more and more motorists possessing phones with internet capability.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Inspector Richard Price, from the force&#8217;s roads policing unit, said: &#8220;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<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;The availability of information is sometimes too tempting to drivers and often they will be picking up the phone and updating their (Facebook) site.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s frightening that people this stupid are even allowed out unsupervised, let alone permitted&#160;to drive cars. They even admit to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8230;research by the RAC had shown one in five motorists in the south-west had admitted to checking social media alerts whilst driving&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So up to 20% of people on the roads down that way are liable to be surfing while they are driving. I&#8217;d wager it is even higher around London and in the south-east.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Price summed up the whole problem surrounding driver behaviour on the roads &#8211; and that would include the behaviour which kills all the little chavs everyone is always prattling on about:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">A minority of drivers have a complacent and sometimes arrogant attitude to driving. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t define &#8220;minority&#8221; in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Market Rasen Mail has an article on Facebook and Twitter use behind the wheel. It seems that police in Devon &amp; Cornwall are catching more and more motorists possessing phones with internet capability. Inspector Richard Price, from the force&#8217;s roads policing unit, said: &#8220;With the new mobile phones, it is becoming more commonplace for [&hellip;]<\/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_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}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}