Yup, having a lit up phone screen on your leg is enough for prosecution. Is it hand-held?
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37 Comments
Bloody Chelsea tractors, but it’s not limited to those drivers as shed drivers still use a phone will operating a motor vehicle
Failure to nominate. You can just tell.
To be honest at no point was her eyes on the phone and her hands were nowhere near the phone , when l get a phone call on my phone through my car , my phone also lights up, can't just decide without proper evidence that she will get done ,
Thankyou for helping to make our roads safer!! 🫡
Didn't seem to have a clue, whether by choice or capability.
I wonder if she could have got away with it on a technicality? The gov.uk website says "It’s illegal to hold and use a phone, sat nav, tablet, or any device that can send or receive data, while driving or riding a motorcycle.
This means you must not use a device in your hand for any reason, whether online or offline."
Where does resting the phone on your knee fall in that description?
Those Range Rovers are London insurance money pits in the first place, but bluetooth devices are cheap.
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued
20 November 2023
Surprise….surprise, another Chelsea Tractor with a phone abusing driver, it really looks like their standard practise.
With the loss of 6 points, they can only do their crime twice, before they need to find someone to drive them, and by doing that allows them to legally use their phones as a passenger.
She won't be smirking when a certain envelope plops on the floor.
You take safety seriously, lucky for us.
It's usually the vanity vehicle
She drives a range rover. Nuff said.
Points mean prizes 🤣
I agree that using phones whilst driving is dangerous and anyone caught should feel the full weight of the law. I do however think that the strap line "that smug and smarmy smile" was disingenuous. I didn't think at all that she was smug or smarmy. She was probably a little embarrassed or simply smiling at the person who was looking into her car. Perhaps Mikey is running out of headlines for his videos
I'm in awe of you!! You're relentless, unstoppable!-you make the Terminator look like a 90 year olld volunteer for the W.I 😮
Funny how she smiled when you leant in, bet she's not smiling now
Pathetic.
Nine in one sweep. 👏
I just don't understand why people just don't Bluetooth the phones to the car
So what about the Taxi Driver and his Crossword? I understand it’s not a Phone, but surely him doing a crossword is just as bad? He’s not concentrating on the Road, and don’t tell me that every time he moves he puts the Crossword pen down on the passenger seat, then when he comes to a stop again reaches over grabs the crossword and pen? I’m not having a go at the Taxi driver but surely just as distracting?
Exceptional hardship lol drives a range rover. Absolute BS's
Why do these people risk it. Utter madness
I’ll bet that’ll wipe the smugness and smarmy smile from her face!!! 🤣👍🙄
Thinks he’s a plastic cop get on your bike and ride it you don’t pay tax so shut the f@@@ up
Another Range Rover!
I'm smug when driving….
Mobile phone in the glove box
Radio off.
Heater on
Thinking about me tea…
and planning to service my bicycle afterwards…
Ready for Spring.!
0:43 – Great Results Mikey, well done . . . . . lets hope those 9 are now remorseful, and have learnt a lesson
The roads are now 0.0001% safer in that area
Ah, the Range Rover . . . . .
£125K to buy
£800 road tax per year
Terrifying cost to insure them
15 MPG average
Questionable reliability & build quality
£2K+ to service
Truly horrific Depreciation
And utterly pointless in the Urban city environment
. . . . . Its hard to believe people are this Moronic
Ha, imagine the costs now of insuring that Range Rover. Lots of insurers wont touch them, even JLR's own insurance company!
Good job Mikey, glad you're keeping the streets safe from selfish Inconsiderate drivers.
Doesn’t look like she’s on the phone looks like she’s got her hand by her head
I would say it was more a guilt smile.
Smile for the magistrate! Say si-i-i-i-ix points!
What a surprise, it's a Chelsea tractor 😂😂
The law should force phone users behind the wheel to look at the dead. Wake up call
A business rang me the other day as I was driving and left a message asking me to call back. When I did after I pulled over, they said as I was driving in to see them why hadn’t I answered my phone. I told them I was driving. Well you could have still answered when you saw it was from us. I don’t use my phone while I’m driving. Oh you can it’s fine. You wouldn’t say that if you were crossing the road when I was driving. Bewilderment.🙄