{"id":7946,"date":"2012-01-31T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2012-01-31T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:59:04","slug":"new-drivers-and-textingthey-just-dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7946","title":{"rendered":"New Drivers and Texting\u2013They Just Don\u2019t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/45;margin: 6px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Blue Corsa R493 OAU\" alt=\"Blue Corsa R493 OAU\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/r493oau.gif\" width=\"179\" height=\"45\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>speed bumps. We can only guess at whether the chicane\/humps will be removed now they\u2019re no longer needed.<\/p>\n<p>I was on the side where you give way to oncoming traffic. Coming the other way \u2013 way beyond the last hump on that side (70m down the road if you measure it on Google Maps) \u2013 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 \u201ctut-tut-tut\u201d and shaking your head territory.<\/p>\n<p>When I pulled up behind I noticed it was occupied by two young girls. They were having a great old time \u2013 the driver was obviously texting and discussing the text with her passenger. She wasn\u2019t aware of me behind \u2013 and <strong>she certainly didn\u2019t see the other car flash its lights at her to go<\/strong> while it was STILL on the other side of that final speed bump.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s parents condone this sort of behaviour \u2013 being significantly responsible for it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The Corsa driver had stopped in the middle of the road predominantly to text. It was her <strong>only<\/strong> interest at that point. She was not aware of <strong>anything<\/strong> happening around her. And it is a <strong>precise illustration<\/strong> of what is wrong with many young drivers today, and shows why they have more fatal accidents than older drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The insurance companies talk of \u201cblack box\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019re no longer needed. I was on the side where you give way to [&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":[80,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers"],"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\/7946","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=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}