What caught my attention?
The car next to me started to veer into my lane. The car corrected, and I looked over to see a young bloke maybe 20 or so texting on his mobile phone. He thought no-one could see because he held the phone down low, but he didn't bank on me being able to see into his car.
This event happened approx 5:30pm Friday 18th of December 2015 along Park Terrace, North Adelaide / Ovingham area. The car was heading East and drove into the filter to turn right into Jeffcott Street.
What pissed me off is this bloke chose to text whilst driving, and couldn't control his car properly and veered into my lane. Had he not corrected at the last second, he could have caused an accident - in peak hour traffic.
I see people on their mobiles all the time, particularly when they are waiting at traffic lights. Although it's still illegal, at least these people (apparently) seem to wait till they are stopped before using their mobiles.
We need more people taking down rego numbers of mobile phone users whilst they are driving, dates, times etc and forwarding it to the police. I don't want to be involved in some accident because some dickhead can't keep off their phone for a few minutes. Nothing is ever THAT urgent that they have to text whilst they are driving.
These people should be named and shamed on a public register, but of course, our government has no balls to do anything so direct. They'd rather reap in the $$$ with smallish fines to keep the revenue coming in.
Get Real
The car next to me started to veer into my lane. The car corrected, and I looked over to see a young bloke maybe 20 or so texting on his mobile phone. He thought no-one could see because he held the phone down low, but he didn't bank on me being able to see into his car.
This event happened approx 5:30pm Friday 18th of December 2015 along Park Terrace, North Adelaide / Ovingham area. The car was heading East and drove into the filter to turn right into Jeffcott Street.
What pissed me off is this bloke chose to text whilst driving, and couldn't control his car properly and veered into my lane. Had he not corrected at the last second, he could have caused an accident - in peak hour traffic.
I see people on their mobiles all the time, particularly when they are waiting at traffic lights. Although it's still illegal, at least these people (apparently) seem to wait till they are stopped before using their mobiles.
We need more people taking down rego numbers of mobile phone users whilst they are driving, dates, times etc and forwarding it to the police. I don't want to be involved in some accident because some dickhead can't keep off their phone for a few minutes. Nothing is ever THAT urgent that they have to text whilst they are driving.
These people should be named and shamed on a public register, but of course, our government has no balls to do anything so direct. They'd rather reap in the $$$ with smallish fines to keep the revenue coming in.
Get Real
