|
|
|
|
31/12/2007
By EWAN KENNEDY
|
|
|
I recently eavesdropped on a conversation that made my blood run cold. A bloke was proudly describing his latest way of doing business while on the move. Whilst driving his car he would take part in a weekly business conference on his hands free mobile phone. I’ve no idea how many people he was communicating with, but the impression was there were quite a few as he gave the appearance of being an important team leader.
During the meeting he would be considering important business topics, getting facts and figures, sifting through suggestions, wandering off on the inevitable tangents. All the usual things that happen at meetings, matters that take a fair bit of concentration to deal with at the best of times when you are sitting at a table in a conference room.
Yet he was doing all of this while in control of a tonne and a half of powerful machinery. Or maybe out of control because there was simply not enough brain power to spare to drive the car.
And if that wasn't bad enough, he admitted that his biggest problem was writing notes while driving. The mind boggles.
Let us hope it’s not you, or your children or some of your friends, who gets caught up in this idiot’s, seemingly inevitable, crash.
What is the government doing about mobile phones? Not a great deal it seems. Sure hand-held units have been made illegal in most areas, but there seems to be minimal policing of a danger that is rapidly showing up to be worse than even drink driving.
In any case, what this clown was doing wasn't illegal - just bloody idiotic, and how do you legislate against that?
I see people on mobile phones behind the wheel every day, and if I can spot them from the driver’s seat a police officer in the passenger seat could obviously see far more of these dangerous offenders. Yet almost nothing appears to be getting done. Seems it’s so much simpler for the police to park behind a bridge or bush on a motorway and raise revenue from people they don’t even have to talk to.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Print Article
Submit Feedback
Email This Article
