Using mobile phones while controlling or operating a vehicle.
Walking down my road (it's a slight hill) this morning I observed a bicycle being ridden up towards me, rather unsteadily, wandering all over the place as if the rider was drunk.
Yes the rider (a young man in Lycra) was busy operating his mobile phone, blissfully unaware of his random progress or indeed anything much around him. He certainly didn't see me. I was very tempted to step out in front of him to cross the road, bring him to an abrupt stop and ask him what he thought of car drivers using mobile phones..... And yes, a bicycle is a vehicle. At least according the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic which the UK observes. Is there any legislation relevant to this situation? |
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Use to cycle quite a bit in my earlier years and it still amazes me how idiotic some cyclists can be. |
This is what I found: https://www.askthe.police.uk/Content/Q604.htm
Owners of electrically assisted cycles need to be careful, presumably that also applies to disability scooters! |
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In my view, the more powerful your vehicle - regardless of it's power source - the greater the responsibility there is on the person "in control" of it. I've also never, ever, seen a bicycle used as an offensive weapon on the road, which I can't say about cars, though that's thankfully very rare. |
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But yeah... It's also an awful lot easier to be bundled off the bike by a bit of crappy tarmac if you're not looking.. so irrespective of the legal position, still a bit daft. |
For what it's worth I experienced something similar a couple of weeks back. Country lane, guy on a bike weaving down the middle of the road completely oblivious. He was weaving because he had BOTH hands on the bloody phone while he was texting!
He didn't even hear me. I ended up having to toot the horn at the bleeder to wake him up so's I could get past. He wasn't pleased :ROFL: |
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Beware of Smart Phone SatNav
Hi,
A very technical point is that a "phone" is classed as " a device capable of making or receiving a a phone call". So touching your smartphone to use the free SatNav software on it actually is touching a phone while driving. Touching is using. That is breaking the law... :tuttut: The police officer will doubtless listen to your explanation that you were not phoning but could do you... :-( Robert. ( ex Magistrate, got too busy at work). |
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