{"id":5833,"date":"2011-04-29T20:57:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5833"},"modified":"2011-04-29T20:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:57:48","slug":"dont-use-your-mobile-when-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5833","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Use Your Mobile When Driving!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Policeman\"No, really?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>play a role.<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>other than concentrating on driving is dangerous.<\/p>\n

And introduce suitable penalties for doing it. Forget silly videos and “awareness” courses. Bring back darkened rooms and lengths of rubber hose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/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-5833","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\/5833","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=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}