Following the ban on hand held mobile phones; the Local Authority Road Safety Officers' Association have recently called for a ban on smoking whilst driving.
However, while the Association of British Drivers believes that distracted driving is one of the biggest factors in road accidents they do not believe individual bans on every distracting thing one can do in a car are the way to solve the problem.
If you think about it, almost everything one does in a car 'can' be dangerously distracting if not done in a sensible manner.
This includes mobile phone use, smoking, eating, talking to passengers, dealing with disruptive children, tuning the radio, operating satnav, checking the speedometer to avoid being caught by speed cameras and even opening the windows or sunroof or picking one's nose!
A separate legal ban for each and every one of these activities would be ridiculous, and would lead to a massive increase in frivolous prosecutions such as the woman applying their make up etc.
Anyway, it’s the same old story. How would the police see them doing a distracting thing, let alone catch and prosecute them?
What is needed is a crackdown on offences like careless or dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention or not being in proper control. The fines from these offences would easy cover the cost of more police patrols.
FemaleFirst - Jackie Violet