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500 drivers a day fined over mobiles
* w w w .telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1912343/500-drivers-a-day-fined-over-mobiles.html
> Andrew Howard, the head of road safety at the AA, said last night that the figures were a welcome sign that the police were cracking down on careless driving.
>
> "People are now being caught for using mobile phones and drivers need to be aware of that," he said.
>
> "I think drivers would be pleased to hear this – it doesn't take much to show that when you have a phone in your hand you're at much greater risk of having an accident."
>
> Robert Goodwill, the Tories' spokesman for roads, said: "This is a damning indictment of Labour's failure to clamp down on drivers who repeatedly flout the law.
>
> "Labour's heavy reliance on speed cameras as a cash cow instead of actually properly policing the roads is being exposed."
> Andrew Howard, the head of road safety at the AA, said last night that the figures were a welcome sign that the police were cracking down on careless driving.
>
> "People are now being caught for using mobile phones and drivers need to be aware of that," he said.
>
> "I think drivers would be pleased to hear this – it doesn't take much to show that when you have a phone in your hand you're at much greater risk of having an accident."
>
> Robert Goodwill, the Tories' spokesman for roads, said: "This is a damning indictment of Labour's failure to clamp down on drivers who repeatedly flout the law.
>
> "Labour's heavy reliance on speed cameras as a cash cow instead of actually properly policing the roads is being exposed."
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
> Alexander Rogge <a_rogge@yahoo . com > wrote in
> news:67stlmF2qkfa2U1@mid.individual . net :
>
> > * w w w .telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1912343/500-drivers-a-day-fined-
> > over-mobiles.html
> >
> >> Andrew Howard, the head of road safety at the AA, said last night
> >> that the figures were a welcome sign that the police were cracking
> >> down on careless driving.
> >>
> >> "People are now being caught for using mobile phones and drivers need
> >> to be aware of that," he said.
> >>
> >> "I think drivers would be pleased to hear this – it doesn't take much
> >> to show that when you have a phone in your hand you're at much
> >> greater risk of having an accident."
> >>
> >> Robert Goodwill, the Tories' spokesman for roads, said: "This is a
> >> damning indictment of Labour's failure to clamp down on drivers who
> >> repeatedly flout the law.
> >>
> >> "Labour's heavy reliance on speed cameras as a cash cow instead of
> >> actually properly policing the roads is being exposed."
> >
>
> Cell phone drivers are homicidal maniacs who kill innocent people every
> day. Lock 'em up. Only the coddlers think otherwise.
Agree, and lets arrest airplane pilots too who drive while
talking.
