She needs to be reported to the police;there's plenty of evidence for a fine and points on her licence. She may never endanger herself or anyone else in this way again.
Unfortunately, I don't think that would prevent her from doing this sort of thing. She very much appears to be a 'phone addict', honestly I think she will have an accident with that sort of carry on
It's impressive she has even that much control given the total lack of awareness! Sad part of all of this is if she had an accident then you can 100% guarentee that it would be "The other driver's fault" with her.
People just don’t care any more, it’s almost like driving without any consideration is a status thing for some people. I think it’s a deep societal issue, not just crappy driving which means it’s extremely difficult to fix if it’s possible to fix at all.
I don't think it's that. I think people are just so attached to their phones, they genuinely cannot see what is so wrong with this type of behaviour. It is absolutely horrifying whenever I see it, an accident can happen so fast there is no way they would have any time to react. However, they are too ignorant to realise this
@@darrylmac6150 I hope you are right and I’m just too pessimistic but sadly I feel it’s deeper than that. I think what we’ve seen in this clip comes from the same place as the people that park on the zigzags outside the school and the people who pull out on you and then give you a mouthful of abuse instead of just apologising and trying not to do it again. There are stiff penalties for phone use and the country is awash with cameras but people just don’t care 🤷♂️
I think that most people think driving isn’t important enough to concentrate on fully. So it’s not hard to find more interesting things than not killing your self or others to do. This is even spreading to motorcycles via tft screens, Bluetooth helmets and intercoms
@@goldilocks913 Great point. I have a bike with a TFT screen with loads of data views and stuff like music selection and nav set up to stop me looking where I’m going. It’s madness. Intercoms are a good idea, I carry my partner as a pillion and it lets me tell her when I’m going to overtake or if she wants to ask me to stop.
My car was rear ended 2 days ago at slow speed whilst waiting at a roundabout. When I got out of the car the driver and his occupant had their head down at their phones. He didn't even realise he had bumped into the back of me. He even had a cheek to tell me I should learn to drive, because apparently the roundabout was clear, despite waiting behind another car. No apologies, nothing.
@@ZJS0113 My phone was in my glovebox, but managed to take a photo before he decided to reverse back. Fortunately no damage. But they were your typical VW golf GTD chavs.
@@EinkOLED mug if you didn't get the guy's insrance details. There is ALWAYS damage from cars hitting eachother. You just can't always see it with an untrained eye
@@ZJS0113 my car looked ok, until i tried to open boot. it was a real struggle to open boot and after it opened it would not catch when closing how ever hard i tried to shut it. mine was at 20mph plus and pushed into car ahead on the 2nd ram, but it bent the frame. the other issues are with modern cars is the plastic bumpers can pop back out after a bump but all the damage is bent metal under the bumper
the only way to stop mobile phones being used in cars is a lifetime ban with no recall i have seen the worst ending to phone use were a mother and two young kids were killed by a driver turning right across oncoming traffic when his lane was on a red light all he got was 6 months jail the wife and kids family a life sentence its not right
Sadly I have, quite often too. Entitled people thinking rules don't apply to them. Unusual for this one to be in such a small car, they tend to be in BMWs, Mercs etc.
She was parked up, on her phone, with her foot on the brake pedal (witness the brake lights!)….no control whatsoever….hope someone reported her to the police as she’s a nightmare!../
The worrying thing is, when she gets a finance deal on an upgrade (I'm guessing something like an Audi A1 for this lass) she'll be a physically larger hazard than before.
As a retired driving instructor and a driving licence holder for 51 years I have obviously seen many changes. The one that sticks out mostly is the lack of respect for other road users. Not only on the road, but also in life in general. It’s all about ME ME ME.
Did this awful driver actually take a test ? As a retired magistrate this driver should be forced to retake the driving test and fined for use of a mobile device along with the relevant points. I see very little police presence on our roads which, of course, gives the wrong signals to bad drivers. Laws can be passed and rules made but without regulation by police and relevant authorities (DVLA etc) they will not be followed or obeyed and driving standards are bound to deteriorate, as we see in the clip.
Police can't be everywhere and for people like this woman it really wouldn't matter. What are the chances of a police car patrolling a car park anyways?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, some people genuinely can't go more than 5 minutes without being on their phones and it's actually pathetic. My phone is available to me when I'm driving but it's in my pocket and muted (and even in cases where I forget to mute it, if it pings I ignore it). It's there in case of an emergency, but I'm never using it whilst I'm driving. Genuinely sickens me when I see videos of people using their phone behind the wheel, and worst thing I think about this clip is this woman had a passenger as well. If I was that passenger, I would have been livid, probably would have gotten out the car personally.
Have seen me going around a supermarket and people sitting there they're not on the phone but the phones in their hand pushing a trolley one hand and the phone in the other you cannot put it in their pocket they cannot do it in the handbag it must be in their hand
@@stewartmcintosh1073 I carry my phone while I shop, but that's because I use scan and shop on my phone. So I can bag as I go, get to the end, pay and go without taking everything out of the trolley. Saves time when I am on my own with my daughter.
I have my phone connected to my car's Bluetooth so it can be answered hands-free if needed, but I try to avoid taking calls when driving as much as possible as you're still distracted when driving in a hands-free call.
And I have my shopping list in the notes app on my phone, so I constantly have to get it out and check what I'm getting. No more distracting than using a trolley with a paper list.
Disgraceful behaviour! Do you know what ?? I’m sick and tired of seeing this as a heavy goods driver , I get a brilliant view of these idiots up and down the M6 using their phones at the wheel , just yesterday somebody was texting with 2 hands on their phone and not on the wheel , they thought they were safe as they were doing 50mph in the near side lane but NO they weren’t this needs to stop and I would have 9 points and a £2000 fine for starters 🤬 rant over …..
True, but HGV drivers are some of the worst offenders and often have no idea that their phone use is obvious in the mirrors/the police have HGVs just to catch them.
Some, not all Police Forces have dedicated web links for video like this in order that they can charge and prosecute clear offenders, in the first instance it is better to send video to police rather than to TH-cam channels, the police can't be everywhere, what responsible drivers can do is to send them clear video evidence such as this, this driver is an accident waiting to happen and I would say to Ashley that moaning about enforcement is one thing but when you have such clear evidence surely it should have gone to the police rather than your channel.
In these sort of situations i'd not only take the person's licence but also impound the car. If someone doesnt care about laws in this manner i'm pretty sure they would drive without a licence as well.
How on earth did she struggle to turn around one of the smallest cars that you can buy! People like her will only realise that what they are doing is wrong when they have an accident, and even then it will probably be the other party that wil be hurt and not her. She had absolutely no idea what was going on around her, and even if we ignore the phone use we can see that she is a dreadful driver from where she has decided to "park"
@@anoncyclist2131 I'm pretty sure that to be able to pass any driving test you need to know how to control the vehicle, so not sure what your point is...
@@calumharper5343 You don’t, a lot of the manoeuvres sections of the UK test has been scrapped. So people can operate the vehicle in the roadway going forwards but lack the brain power to do any manoeuvres in “tight” spaces. It’s far too common to see, I would class that as having no idea how to control the car. If you can’t parallel park, you shouldn’t be able to drive
Yeah just want to second this, three point turns and other similar turns in tight spaces like that aren't taught/tested anymore. I'm lucky that my instructor still thought it was worth teaching
Seen a lot worse. Sadly. Getting rid of my mobile phone was the best life decision I'd made in a long time. It's not just driving it distracts from.....it's life.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 How do you think we managed for the thousands of years prior to their invention. Worse thing to ever be invented imo. Humanity has become enslaved to the things and it's only going to get worse.
There is enough solid evidence here to pass to the Police and earn this incompetent female 6 points on their license. If they are a new driver it would mean losing their license which maybe a good thing to keep a dangerous driver off the road. However since it’s on social media it may hamper a case being brought against her.
While you're passing it to the police and they're having a good old think about it, she's going to have killed someone. That's dangerous enough I would have felt justified in grabbing her car keys or snipping her valve stem to disable her vehicle. Having buried a teenage relative whose life was cut short by a mobile phone user, I'm now of the "stop them by any means necessary" point of view.
@@Dave-bu6bc I can only imagine how gut wrenching it feels to have been in your position and every time I see someone on a phone it affects my driving in the sense I protect myself by holding back even further and giving plenty of space for them to do something unpredictable. Unfortunately when it comes to pedestrians they are sitting ducks when they lose control and go into them, and friends on 2 wheels. The thing that’s is worst on this video is the amount of cheek she has to answer back and continue doing what she is doing when it’s clearly wrong. She seems young and experienced and it will require a visit from the police or a big dose of social media to put her back in her place and educate her on how to behave and contribute to society rather than be a menace.
I totally agree with what you commented on a previous video. Enough with only the fines and points, people should be forced to do mandatory driving safety classes and upon failure to show up an automatic loss of license for a year. There is no excuse to be on a phone while operating a vehicle unless your life is in danger.
Im not one of these record everything and send it to the police types, but this person has a total disregard for anything but herself. Please send to the Police.
@@seemorebeer2848 I'm asking him to report it to the police.. I get families having issue and needing to use a mobile but she is clearly not in any distress. You message makes no sense. You need to chill responding with the much emotion makes you just as dangerous as her.
Distracted driving is not new. Many years ago, in pre-cell phone days, I passed a car on Hwy 1 near Vancouver where the driver was reading the local broadsheet newspaper while the passenger was steering! Fortunately my wife was with me so I have a witness. This is a great service you are providing. I’ve share it with my cousins who have teenagers just starting their driver education.
In my opinion the illegal use of mobile phones has become an epidemic, for 2 main reasons: the penalties are insufficient and there is very little chance of being caught. Given that using a mobile phone whilst driving is not far off as dangerous as drink/drug driving I believe the penalties should be the same i.e. a mandatory driving ban. As for the lack of enforcement, in the current situation I don't see how that can be improved. I wonder, do Police Forces accept dashcam footage as sufficient evidence for prosecution?
@@cycloactive5858 Yes, but the form takes ten minutes to fill in and you need to submit at least two minutes. When I've given them clear evidence of a driver with kids jumping around in the front they say they need more footage. Difficult when the driver speeds off.
Yes. I’ve submitted a blatant red light jumping incident to cheat queueing traffic and a case was brought against the driver when they updated me about my report.
has become? Its been an epidemic for over a decade with the first laws came into play in 2003. Its a crime that either needs the police to spot it, or a dash cam, and not alot of dash cams have the quality to make sure (small lens doing a wide view)
Australia's started to realise that the penalties are insufficient with the fines starting to rise to 600 pounds across the country. One state's automatic cameras issued 33,805 mobile phone-use fines in just 4 months. Maybe we could learn from them
I'd have driven past her, opened my window, honked the horn right next to her and shouted "OFF THE PHONE WOMAN" but maybe I'm wrong🤔 Someone in my family was hurt because of someone as aloof as this using a phone so I just cannot stand it
I'm pretty sure you've made reference to the TH-camr "CyclingMikey" in other videos but I'd consider sending this footage to the police like he does, they have special websites for dashcam footage and you get an outcome within a couple of weeks.
6 Points on her licence, a £400 fine and her annual insurance being double . . . would certainly help her to 'Focus' more & knock the edges off that arrogant driving style
Years ago, someone drove down our street with a mobile held to his ear by hunched shoulders with his knees up on the steering wheel, writing something down - whilst doing ??? mils per hour.
Terrifying as a two-wheeler to think that there are such stupid inconsiderate people like that driving around & should she collide with me, she will have the protection of a metal box & airbags, whereas I will have a helmet & armoured riding gear... 😡
@@sahhull Why is that the first thing you thought about ? An individual makes a comment and you get defensive about cars even after watching the video.
Hi Ashley and sorry to go off topic. I am a 32 Ton Lorry Driver, and I see a lot on the road. I was looking for your opinion about people who pass their driving tests and can then go on motorways which they have never driven on? So would you agree that the law should be changed so that people who pass (with an instructor, or with a friend) should then be given up to 3 months to have to take 2 motorway lessons with an OFFICIAL INSTRUCTOR, and then they are fine after that, if they don't then their licence should be revoked until they do have the 2 motorway lessons. My reason for saying this is because I notice quite a lot of drivers coming up or down the on ramp to join the motorway. Then virtually stop at the lines as though they are give way markers, and then start looking back to see what traffic is coming and panic, instead of looking whilst they are driving along the on ramp and adjusting their speed accordingly. I have had a few moments where I end up braking to let them on as there is traffic on my right so I can't move over, and they brake because they see me, I brake more to leave them room ETC. Then they join and drive off and I lost most of my momentum and I can only build up my speed slowly and which isn't that fast in a big wagon. So, it was just a thought I have had many times and I think it should be mandatory to have 2 lessons to see the different driving requirements needed for motorway driving. Maybe you could do a bit of a tutorial (if you haven't already)? on motorway procedures? P.S. I used to do multidrop deliveries around Liverpool in an 18 ton lorry so that is one reason I latched on to your channel. P.P.S. can you also teach us all how to be so relaxed like you are 🤔🤔 😝😝
Had a near miss yesterday driving my bus, oncoming car swerves into my path because they were looking down at their phone. Most cars have bluetooth so there's no need to use your phone!
I’m sure all one would get is verbal abuse from someone like that if you spoke to them , as long as they haven’t hit anything all is ok and perfectly normal, great standards shown here. Appalling.
It's not just the driver. If I was the passenger in that car I would have got out and walked home. Many years ago when I was in college, I was offered lifts from a couple of people, but knowing they'd had some crashes in recent past I avoided it and took the bus instead. Self responsibility (and preservation!) is what they need.
I was tailgated then flashed on a motorway last week, I was already doing slightly over the speed limit of 130KPH. When she did overtake she was holding and having a conversation on her large smart phone. She just continued and tailgated the next vehicle.
@@ivorjones6618 i couldn't care less. Clearly you're in the way if someone is flashing you 😂 at the end of the day, even if I was doing 100mph, I'd still be keeping left to let faster traffic pass me.
It’s frightening that either yourself (Ashley) or your family members catch so many people on their phones, and other very poor driving fails, and since I’ve been following your channel I’ve noticed many such things too (I’ve also corrected some bad habits of my own!). Thanks for what you do to improve road safely.
Really grips my sh*t people like that so addicted to their phone a right bundle of fun such intelligence her mother must be so proud. My ex wife is now ex because well one of the reasons was her phone addiction.
Like speeding, probably because of the relatively small penalty, using a phone at the wheel seems to be treated about as seriously as getting a parking ticket. If phone use carried the same minimum penalty as drink driving maybe more people would be deterred.
I'd like to see it treated the same as running amok in the high street with a shotgun. Mandatory custodial sentence of at least 4 or 5 years. More people are killed by nutters with mobile phones than by nutters with shotguns.
Ash, that was a total and utter shocker! How anyone could think this is in any way acceptable is totally beyond me. Not to mention all that faffing around back and forth whilst waiting for her McMeal! As you pointed out, why not just park in a legitimate space to wait and be done with it. And judging by those incidents of rolling back, seems she hadn't applied the handbrake the whole time she was stopped. That and the fact that her daytime running lights were on the whole time does indeed suggest her car was "running" the entire time whilst she chatted like a magpie on her phone. And what a place to park! This is all so so wrong on so many counts. That last bit of lengthy reversing whilst not even looking back was quite something! I shudder to think how her general attitude behind the wheel is as well as her standard of driving. And yes, the Ford reversing wasn't the best either. I was quite concerned for your car there!
Unfortunately we live in a society littered with entitled people. If anyone had tooted her or said anything I suspect that she would have gone all out offensive. Even with the police these entitled darlings will argue their case to justify their behaviour... They always have an excuse or justification for their behaviour but ironically will often be the most judgemental of others doing the same thing. This one was probably daddies little princess...
Ashley you mentioned how ‘brazen’ she was with the mobile phone use, the reason is crystal clear - there’s no one out there to stop her anymore and she knows it. This is why she’ll go on to cause something a lot worse down the road. More enforcement of the law as it stands would help endlessly.
I didn’t see any motorists going the other side of the keep left sign yesterday. Plenty of road users not giving way to pedestrians crossing outer circle though.
@@ashley_neal Quite frankly I found it shocking to see so many drivers being caught on camera actually going the wrong side of that keep left sign putting themselves head-on to the those turning left. Okay, I realise you do have to look both ways before emerging from a junction but most will probably only look to their right when turning left. Are there any video clips of this happening elsewhere?
Absolutely, I have a traffic lights outside my house, the moment the lights go red the drivers can't wait to get on their phones, Tinder/Grinder is sooooo important! I contacted the Police, they didn't even bother replying to my email.
I would think 6 points is quite a lot (I would rather not get any, personally) but the punishment could be death, means nothing if it doesn’t get enforced!
Eh Ashley, tha, must've lived a sheltered life lad. That's nowt compared to what happens over here in West Yorkshire. Speeding along congested 20mph side roads, at 40mph+, phone in hand making video calls. In our town, at light controlled junctions, there isn't a single pedestrian barrier that hasn't been smashed into.
yeah I'm seeing a lot more buckled barriers than I did a few years ago, wouldn't be surprised if the councils are also taking longer to fix them than they used to but the phone driving going on the last few years is unbelievable.
Seen that one too, operating the satnav with one hand and a communication device with the other, steering with one knee, failed to make the corner and went straight thru the railings on the junction behind West Yorkshire Police Headquarters, in full uniform with sergeants stripes in a marked patrol car. Council have since removed the railings so if he does it again it's more likely to cause a death. West Yorkshire Police setting a great example to the public once again!
Shocking. It's a pity the camera didn't pick up the license plate. I hope that one of the security cameras did and this driver has been reported to the police.
People like her are with the mindset that the laws are a joke and are there to "irritate and annoy people", so they do what they please and think they can get away with it. A friend of mine thought the exact same, speeding in a 30mph zone, hitting 90. Well, guess what - he learnt the hard way. Had to watch his rs4 getting squished into a metal box. He's still paying finance on the car and will be paying for some years to come. And to be honest forget the fines, getting your license taken etc, what about your own safety, that of the passanger/s in your car, as well as the other road users? I mean it's common sense, but some people fail to apply it...
I really am against do-gooders bombarding the police with every little infraction they see, But every now and again you see something like this where you think “we need to get that idiot off the road” So I hope you reported and submitted this video.
Millennial drivers are too focus with video calling and posting live feeds on their social to focus on real world surrounding them. This is a prime example in this clip of lack of attention and safety for those around them. Can you imagine a family or a child walking out towards their car and this disgrace of a driver rolls back into them whilst on a phone? Shocking driving from all levels. License Plate - PN13FXC
Here in Belgium you will now actually lose your license if you're caught using your mobile phone behind the wheel! Also if you're using it as a GPS when it's not properly secured.
I have to wonder, what was *so* important that it caused this person to use their phone and be like this? They better be frantically blowing up Thanos's notifications to distract him from destroying the Universe, or else there is no reason for this.
You had no need to blur the plate or face. She was in public, there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. Did anyone manage to download the unedited version? As usual, Neal only reports if it affects him, no matter how dangerous the behaviour
This really infuriates me. I see it all the time. As someone else has said, the driving standards now are appalling. No lights on in fog or after lighting up time, speeding, tailgating, using wrong lanes deliberately just to get a few cars in front, and the most common one now seems to be pulling out of a side road in front of oncoming traffic. You definitely take your life into your hands nowadays as well as enduring these tosspots on mobiles.
Just did an MOT check on the car. 2021: Advisory - Items removed from driver's view prior to test (FAIL) Retest: Advisory - Items removed from driver's view prior to test (PASS). (So she put the objects back in her view after the first test??) I wonder if she put those things back in her view again after that. Not that it would make a lot of difference if she is just looking down all the time...
I followed someone some time ago driving into Bluewater shopping centre, they mounted a roundabout and then a kerb. Sure enough they were on their phone.
I am glad you posted this for the world to see, however this really needs to go to the police as well unless it already has, if this female isn't reprimanded by the authorities then she will do this many more times, and won't be so lucky to reverse like that and not hit someone. On the vid description, the problem is the Gov keeps adding or changing laws, but the constant cutbacks to the Police force and the crap they have to do away from the streets makes it virtually impossible for these to be caught without being sent the evidence. 20 yrs ago I caught someone stealing a £30 aftershave, the officer that came for the scrotum said he will have to do 3hrs of paperwork and booking just for a warning to be given, and the only change since then is it's computerised but still needs typing in.
Its not just driving its everywhere. My wife and I were waiting at the departure gate in Jersey airport, there were two 30ish women waiting there too, each had a young daughter about 8 or 9 years old. The one woman was telling her daughter all about how the airport works and the little girl was asking loads of questions. The other woman had her head stuck in her phone and was totally ignoring her little girls attempts to communicate with her, in the end the girl gave up trying and retreated into her own world.
I agree, and car in-built screens are also very dangerous in my opinion. They may be bigger and higher (and also legal) but when using one you’re not looking at the road, or if you are, it’s with peripheral vision which is not enough. They could probably be used safely with a quick glance but it’s so easy to get distracted for a little longer than is safe. So this woman is blatantly behaving awfully, but people need to be conscious of the more cryptic dangers too which are every bit as lethal.
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. For example, you must not text, make calls, take photos or videos, or browse the web. The law still applies to you if you’re: stopped at traffic lights queuing in traffic supervising a learner driver driving a car that turns off the engine when you stop moving holding and using a device that’s offline or in flight mode
I was just sat in a 30 minute blockage of the M40 with a phone driver behind. No tyres and tarmac for her, but even after being stationary for 5 minutes her car was edging forwards, I was waiting for the bump. Totally engrossed in the phone, glasses being fidgeted with and zero awareness of the surroundings. In over 20 minutes of being stationary(ISH!), they obviously never applied the handbrake, that's how unaware of the situation they were in. Clearly not the only one, because when we set off, I had a choice of lanes as a 400+ metre gap opened up behind me.
Ohhhhhh ughhhhhhhh 🤬🤬🤬🤬 this has really made my blood boil!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬 selfish, inconsiderate and oblivious. What a total (insert what ever word comes to mind)
That 100% needs to be reported. She's not the type of person who will learn from a simple bit of education; not with that attitude. She needs to face consequences. I feel like phone use whilst driving is on the rise again, I see at least 3 drivers doing it every day at this point. I have saved a dashcam clip recently of a van driver, in a company van who has their phone blatantly in their hand whilst driving. Might start reporting drivers to their company when I see phone use by their drivers.
I would say unbelievable but seen far too many vids showing people on their phones whilst driving and in real life to be surprised. They do not even realise they are a danger to themselves and others.
Nearly car who comes through our drive thru at McDonald's texts while driving. It is irritating when you are tasked with managing the traffic flow. We have a rear end crash at least once a month as a result.
I can’t believe that reverse past the give way. I’d be terrified to do that manoeuvre with full concentration, she’s doing it while shouting across the car park and not looking. It has to be impressed upon every driver that every second you’re driving is a second you could kill or seriously injure someone - like there, what if a cyclist had been coming and hit into her. She’s riding her luck driving like that, and it’s inevitable that if she continues to do so her luck will run out someday. Sadly, it’ll probably be someone else who pays the price.
Looking at Merseyside Police website you can report this sort of thing but there are 3 criteria that have to be met for the footage to be used in court: 1. The evidence must be in your possession - both the original and a copy 2. Not have been edited or manipulated in any way 3. Not have been shared on the internet (including social media) Doesn't stop anyone trying to report it I guess, including Ashley himself
Police enforcement of mobile phone offences is virtually non existent in Derbyshire also . You dont need to look for drivers using their phones while driving , they do it so brazenly . Glad I stumbled across your channel Ashley , gives me plenty of food for thought and pointers to improve my driving . I passed my advanced test in 1987 in a series 1 RS Turbo when the roads could still be enjoyed .
would love to know your thoughts on smoking and vaping while driving. i watched someone trying to park and vape at the same time today and they mounted the curb because they werent concentrating
I think most people with any sense would have told her to put the phone away or get out the car. I suspect she knows very few people with common sense.
Let it go. Find the missed call when you are parked legal and safe with engine off and Like I just have call back or make the call. Even hands free a phone call is distraction that takes your attention off the road.
...What's got four wheels, drives peculiar, Bouncing cars up on the kerb, Doesn't look when she's reversing Answer is THAT Liver bird! La,lalala,la,lalala,la,lalala,la,la,la....
Odd Question Ashley, If you pass your test in an electric car (Soon to be the only cars available for sale), do you just get an auto licence? What will happen to all the teenagers who can only afford to drive older manual cars? Just a thought for a new video?
Unfortunately this is why we need to return to the Bobbys on the beat way of policing the streets. CCTV isn't a remedy because that relies on the crime having already happened and it's also about providing a deterent. People will behave better when they know there is a police officer in the area and their partner who can arrest them or at least give them a telling off and a vetbal clip round the ear. I'll be happy to pay a bit more in taxes to have safer streets like this and a neighbourhood police officer or two who knows me by name in an old fashioned sort of way. People will grumble but if you've got a clean conscience then you have nothing to fear.
Watching Ashley’s and Reg Local’s videos have helped me up my game to help me avoid contact with idiots such as this one here, I’ve been driving since 1984, you never stop learning.
As a motorists you still see drivers each day on their mobile phones. However I am also a motorcyclist which gives you a unique vantage point, particularly when filtering past stationary traffic, e.g. in a queue for traffic lights. Almost without fail I will see motorists using their phone, often trying to secrete the phone in their lap, while waiting.
Sadly, It is not just in Liverpool. I see so many drivers using mobile phones in the car. Only this week, I had a van right on my tail in heavy but fast-moving traffic approaching the accident blackspot that is the Winnall Roundabout outside Winchester. (Where the A34 ends and joins the M3 Motorway via a traffic-light controlled roundabout). People just don't care.
A whole bunch of years ago, when use of a mobile phone whilst driving had just became a traffic offence under Queensland (Australia) law, I got caught and was fined a bit over AUD330. This is what happened:- I had called someone who I had to meet on a job site somewhere but he had a habit of speaking softly and I didn't have a bluetooth connection on my phone. The speaker wasn't loud enough, so I picked up the phone and put it up to my ear and drove along a road looking for where he was at. He said he was in a shopping centre down the road a bit and eventually came to it and drove straight in and parked. But a police car followed me in and stopped next to me. The 2 policemen got out and approached me and said that the saw me on the phone whilst driving. As I knew I had, I didn't try to argue the case. After they gave me the ticket, I asked them where they saw me using my phone. They said I was going one direction, they were going the other and saw me on the phone, they did a U-turn and followed me all the way (about a km, I guess) into the shopping centre where we were all now at. I said that that was fair enough, as I WAS SO DISTRACTED TALKING ON THE PHONE I DIDN'T SEE THEM AT ALL! If a kid had had stepped out in front of me, I shudder to wonder if I would have seen him/her at all. I have no pity for anyone caught using their phone whilst driving. I think the fine is now about $1100, thereabouts. I lot of money to waste on a stupid phone call, I'll give you the drum...
Once I was on the main road and this woman emerging from the side road didn’t even look and pulled out. I’m not surprised, she had her phone on her and didn’t even bother to look or say sorry when she saw me
She needs to be reported to the police;there's plenty of evidence for a fine and points on her licence. She may never endanger herself or anyone else in this way again.
Yep 😀
Couldn’t agree more, like you said plenty of evidence including licence plate.
Do it yourself then 🤣
Unfortunately, I don't think that would prevent her from doing this sort of thing. She very much appears to be a 'phone addict', honestly I think she will have an accident with that sort of carry on
Shame it wasn't in Wales! If submitted to operation snap she would have lost her license.
It's impressive she has even that much control given the total lack of awareness!
Sad part of all of this is if she had an accident then you can 100% guarentee that it would be "The other driver's fault" with her.
And she'd be out out recording everything on that phone.
@@mahfuzurchowdhury2765 of course to prove she is right lol
You can also guarantee she lives in social housing, has a half-brother called 'Kai' and is on ADHD meds for her mentul 'elf innit.
She's probably got a no win, no fee solicitor on speed-dial.
I just came to the comments to write this.
People just don’t care any more, it’s almost like driving without any consideration is a status thing for some people. I think it’s a deep societal issue, not just crappy driving which means it’s extremely difficult to fix if it’s possible to fix at all.
You've nailed it with how people think it's cool to drive like m*ngs. Driving test needs to be harder and everyone should have to resit after 5year
I don't think it's that. I think people are just so attached to their phones, they genuinely cannot see what is so wrong with this type of behaviour. It is absolutely horrifying whenever I see it, an accident can happen so fast there is no way they would have any time to react. However, they are too ignorant to realise this
@@darrylmac6150 I hope you are right and I’m just too pessimistic but sadly I feel it’s deeper than that. I think what we’ve seen in this clip comes from the same place as the people that park on the zigzags outside the school and the people who pull out on you and then give you a mouthful of abuse instead of just apologising and trying not to do it again. There are stiff penalties for phone use and the country is awash with cameras but people just don’t care 🤷♂️
I think that most people think driving isn’t important enough to concentrate on fully. So it’s not hard to find more interesting things than not killing your self or others to do. This is even spreading to motorcycles via tft screens, Bluetooth helmets and intercoms
@@goldilocks913 Great point. I have a bike with a TFT screen with loads of data views and stuff like music selection and nav set up to stop me looking where I’m going. It’s madness. Intercoms are a good idea, I carry my partner as a pillion and it lets me tell her when I’m going to overtake or if she wants to ask me to stop.
My car was rear ended 2 days ago at slow speed whilst waiting at a roundabout. When I got out of the car the driver and his occupant had their head down at their phones. He didn't even realise he had bumped into the back of me. He even had a cheek to tell me I should learn to drive, because apparently the roundabout was clear, despite waiting behind another car. No apologies, nothing.
Should've got your phone out and filmed him from the start.
@@ZJS0113 My phone was in my glovebox, but managed to take a photo before he decided to reverse back. Fortunately no damage. But they were your typical VW golf GTD chavs.
@@EinkOLED mug if you didn't get the guy's insrance details. There is ALWAYS damage from cars hitting eachother. You just can't always see it with an untrained eye
@@ZJS0113 my car looked ok, until i tried to open boot. it was a real struggle to open boot and after it opened it would not catch when closing how ever hard i tried to shut it. mine was at 20mph plus and pushed into car ahead on the 2nd ram, but it bent the frame. the other issues are with modern cars is the plastic bumpers can pop back out after a bump but all the damage is bent metal under the bumper
the only way to stop mobile phones being used in cars is a lifetime ban with no recall i have seen the worst ending to phone use were a mother and two young kids were killed by a driver turning right across oncoming traffic when his lane was on a red light all he got was 6 months jail the wife and kids family a life sentence its not right
I have honestly never seen anything like that. She has to be taken off the road. This is a video for the police so much dangerous driving.
Sadly I have, quite often too. Entitled people thinking rules don't apply to them. Unusual for this one to be in such a small car, they tend to be in BMWs, Mercs etc.
I regularly see people in the phone as they leave car parks, why not just stop.
She was parked up, on her phone, with her foot on the brake pedal (witness the brake lights!)….no control whatsoever….hope someone reported her to the police as she’s a nightmare!../
did she even get any food?
@@Nodster … I hope it was cold!…🤣😂💩
You saw the registration number YOU REPORT HER !
* and whats the chance she was wearing bloody flip flops/stiletto heels ! 🤬🤬 Pond life
The worrying thing is, when she gets a finance deal on an upgrade (I'm guessing something like an Audi A1 for this lass) she'll be a physically larger hazard than before.
As a retired driving instructor and a driving licence holder for 51 years I have obviously seen many changes. The one that sticks out mostly is the lack of respect for other road users. Not only on the road, but also in life in general. It’s all about ME ME ME.
Your comment is sad but very true.this world is not a nice place,with too many narcissistic,self entitled brats
Did this awful driver actually take a test ?
As a retired magistrate this driver should be forced to retake the driving test and fined for use of a mobile device along with the relevant points.
I see very little police presence on our roads which, of course, gives the wrong signals to bad drivers. Laws can be passed and rules made but without regulation by police and relevant authorities (DVLA etc) they will not be followed or obeyed and driving standards are bound to deteriorate, as we see in the clip.
Police can't be everywhere and for people like this woman it really wouldn't matter. What are the chances of a police car patrolling a car park anyways?
@@sparkeli4513 👈police what police, never see them nowadays!!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, some people genuinely can't go more than 5 minutes without being on their phones and it's actually pathetic. My phone is available to me when I'm driving but it's in my pocket and muted (and even in cases where I forget to mute it, if it pings I ignore it). It's there in case of an emergency, but I'm never using it whilst I'm driving.
Genuinely sickens me when I see videos of people using their phone behind the wheel, and worst thing I think about this clip is this woman had a passenger as well. If I was that passenger, I would have been livid, probably would have gotten out the car personally.
Have seen me going around a supermarket and people sitting there they're not on the phone but the phones in their hand pushing a trolley one hand and the phone in the other you cannot put it in their pocket they cannot do it in the handbag it must be in their hand
@@stewartmcintosh1073 I carry my phone while I shop, but that's because I use scan and shop on my phone. So I can bag as I go, get to the end, pay and go without taking everything out of the trolley. Saves time when I am on my own with my daughter.
I have my phone connected to my car's Bluetooth so it can be answered hands-free if needed, but I try to avoid taking calls when driving as much as possible as you're still distracted when driving in a hands-free call.
@@VoxelLoop same, I tried hands free once and found it still too distracting so don’t even connect it anymore. Anyone calling can wait.
And I have my shopping list in the notes app on my phone, so I constantly have to get it out and check what I'm getting. No more distracting than using a trolley with a paper list.
Disgraceful behaviour! Do you know what ?? I’m sick and tired of seeing this as a heavy goods driver , I get a brilliant view of these idiots up and down the M6 using their phones at the wheel , just yesterday somebody was texting with 2 hands on their phone and not on the wheel , they thought they were safe as they were doing 50mph in the near side lane but NO they weren’t this needs to stop and I would have 9 points and a £2000 fine for starters 🤬 rant over …..
And let’s face it Dave if they crash into a Heavy HGV lorry there definitely dead
True, but HGV drivers are some of the worst offenders and often have no idea that their phone use is obvious in the mirrors/the police have HGVs just to catch them.
one of those situations that always is worthy of a rant!
100% agree with you!
@@GilesWendes I consider myself a role model for HGV drivers and ALWAYS drive professionally 👍
@@GilesWendes - I suspect some of these instances are radio to base - as with taxis and in regular use since the 1940s.
Some, not all Police Forces have dedicated web links for video like this in order that they can charge and prosecute clear offenders, in the first instance it is better to send video to police rather than to TH-cam channels, the police can't be everywhere, what responsible drivers can do is to send them clear video evidence such as this, this driver is an accident waiting to happen and I would say to Ashley that moaning about enforcement is one thing but when you have such clear evidence surely it should have gone to the police rather than your channel.
In these sort of situations i'd not only take the person's licence but also impound the car. If someone doesnt care about laws in this manner i'm pretty sure they would drive without a licence as well.
Although I understand your point, she could still sell her car to get some of her money back.
So you would take her license even though your certain she hasn't got one...makes perfect sense
How on earth did she struggle to turn around one of the smallest cars that you can buy!
People like her will only realise that what they are doing is wrong when they have an accident, and even then it will probably be the other party that wil be hurt and not her.
She had absolutely no idea what was going on around her, and even if we ignore the phone use we can see that she is a dreadful driver from where she has decided to "park"
@@anoncyclist2131 I'm pretty sure that to be able to pass any driving test you need to know how to control the vehicle, so not sure what your point is...
@@calumharper5343 You don’t, a lot of the manoeuvres sections of the UK test has been scrapped. So people can operate the vehicle in the roadway going forwards but lack the brain power to do any manoeuvres in “tight” spaces. It’s far too common to see, I would class that as having no idea how to control the car. If you can’t parallel park, you shouldn’t be able to drive
@@anoncyclist2131 I agree with this, some of the things I've seen have been crazy like no common sense shown at all lol.
She struggled as she has no interest in her driving skills and more interest in whatever is on the phone.
Yeah just want to second this, three point turns and other similar turns in tight spaces like that aren't taught/tested anymore. I'm lucky that my instructor still thought it was worth teaching
Seen a lot worse. Sadly. Getting rid of my mobile phone was the best life decision I'd made in a long time. It's not just driving it distracts from.....it's life.
Just wait till there’s an emergency Ivor and come back @ me then.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 How do you think we managed for the thousands of years prior to their invention.
Worse thing to ever be invented imo. Humanity has become enslaved to the things and it's only going to get worse.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 Never had an emergency in ten years of mobile free life.
@@andyharpist2938 So if there's an emergency you're fucked basically, or relying on other people to have a phone.
@@_Professor_Oak Mobiles cause more emergencies than they solve. (and just wait till you can't buy so much as a Mars bar without one! )
There is enough solid evidence here to pass to the Police and earn this incompetent female 6 points on their license. If they are a new driver it would mean losing their license which maybe a good thing to keep a dangerous driver off the road.
However since it’s on social media it may hamper a case being brought against her.
While you're passing it to the police and they're having a good old think about it, she's going to have killed someone. That's dangerous enough I would have felt justified in grabbing her car keys or snipping her valve stem to disable her vehicle.
Having buried a teenage relative whose life was cut short by a mobile phone user, I'm now of the "stop them by any means necessary" point of view.
police at the moment are short of resources so most get thrown out the window, it seems to take someone killed these days for something to be done.
Stop calling woman females. It makes you sound like a creep.
@@Dave-bu6bc That's rough, I'm sorry for your loss. I was thinking it's a pretty strong reaction, but understandable given the context.
@@Dave-bu6bc I can only imagine how gut wrenching it feels to have been in your position and every time I see someone on a phone it affects my driving in the sense I protect myself by holding back even further and giving plenty of space for them to do something unpredictable.
Unfortunately when it comes to pedestrians they are sitting ducks when they lose control and go into them, and friends on 2 wheels.
The thing that’s is worst on this video is the amount of cheek she has to answer back and continue doing what she is doing when it’s clearly wrong. She seems young and experienced and it will require a visit from the police or a big dose of social media to put her back in her place and educate her on how to behave and contribute to society rather than be a menace.
I totally agree with what you commented on a previous video. Enough with only the fines and points, people should be forced to do mandatory driving safety classes and upon failure to show up an automatic loss of license for a year. There is no excuse to be on a phone while operating a vehicle unless your life is in danger.
I'd sooner see automatic all network phone bans.
Im not one of these record everything and send it to the police types, but this person has a total disregard for anything but herself. Please send to the Police.
Who are you asking to report this exactly?
I hope her entitled type never kill any of your family my friend.
@@seemorebeer2848
I'm asking him to report it to the police..
I get families having issue and needing to use a mobile but she is clearly not in any distress.
You message makes no sense.
You need to chill responding with the much emotion makes you just as dangerous as her.
@@seemorebeer2848 just said in the original comment "the police" 🙄🤦♂️
I am, especially something like this
Distracted driving is not new. Many years ago, in pre-cell phone days, I passed a car on Hwy 1 near Vancouver where the driver was reading the local broadsheet newspaper while the passenger was steering! Fortunately my wife was with me so I have a witness.
This is a great service you are providing. I’ve share it with my cousins who have teenagers just starting their driver education.
In my opinion the illegal use of mobile phones has become an epidemic, for 2 main reasons: the penalties are insufficient and there is very little chance of being caught. Given that using a mobile phone whilst driving is not far off as dangerous as drink/drug driving I believe the penalties should be the same i.e. a mandatory driving ban. As for the lack of enforcement, in the current situation I don't see how that can be improved. I wonder, do Police Forces accept dashcam footage as sufficient evidence for prosecution?
@@cycloactive5858 Yes, but the form takes ten minutes to fill in and you need to submit at least two minutes. When I've given them clear evidence of a driver with kids jumping around in the front they say they need more footage. Difficult when the driver speeds off.
Yes. I’ve submitted a blatant red light jumping incident to cheat queueing traffic and a case was brought against the driver when they updated me about my report.
has become? Its been an epidemic for over a decade with the first laws came into play in 2003. Its a crime that either needs the police to spot it, or a dash cam, and not alot of dash cams have the quality to make sure (small lens doing a wide view)
Australia's started to realise that the penalties are insufficient with the fines starting to rise to 600 pounds across the country. One state's automatic cameras issued 33,805 mobile phone-use fines in just 4 months. Maybe we could learn from them
I think it should be treated the same as drink driving it's just as if not more dangerous
I'd have driven past her, opened my window, honked the horn right next to her and shouted "OFF THE PHONE WOMAN" but maybe I'm wrong🤔
Someone in my family was hurt because of someone as aloof as this using a phone so I just cannot stand it
I'm pretty sure you've made reference to the TH-camr "CyclingMikey" in other videos but I'd consider sending this footage to the police like he does, they have special websites for dashcam footage and you get an outcome within a couple of weeks.
He never does anything about anything. He will post and shame on his channel but won’t do the right thing and save any lives.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 I think by him teaching people to be better and more careful drivers has probably saved lives. 🤦♀️
@@handsoffmycactus2958 How many videos of you has he posted to make you that cynical? Lost a a job maybe?
She needs reporting. To a really fucking good hitman.
6 Points on her licence, a £400 fine and her annual insurance being double . . . would certainly help her to 'Focus' more & knock the edges off that arrogant driving style
Years ago, someone drove down our street with a mobile held to his ear by hunched shoulders with his knees up on the steering wheel, writing something down - whilst doing ??? mils per hour.
Terrifying as a two-wheeler to think that there are such stupid inconsiderate people like that driving around & should she collide with me, she will have the protection of a metal box & airbags, whereas I will have a helmet & armoured riding gear... 😡
Ive seen motor bikers faffing with their phones too at traffic lights.
@@sahhull
Why is that the first thing you thought about ? An individual makes a comment and you get defensive about cars even after watching the video.
@@sahhull YUp they are a noisy pest
Some drivers just need banning & retesting , they are so oblivious to the trouble they cause , by stupid parking ..
Ah, the stereotype. Shitty little bubble/box car and young lass 😆 terrifying
Cycling Mikey would have this girl reported and charged in a flash.
PLEASE say she was reported.
Hi Ashley and sorry to go off topic.
I am a 32 Ton Lorry Driver, and I see a lot on the road.
I was looking for your opinion about people who pass their driving tests and can then go on motorways which they have never driven on?
So would you agree that the law should be changed so that people who pass (with an instructor, or with a friend) should then be given up to 3 months to have to take 2 motorway lessons with an OFFICIAL INSTRUCTOR, and then they are fine after that, if they don't then their licence should be revoked until they do have the 2 motorway lessons.
My reason for saying this is because I notice quite a lot of drivers coming up or down the on ramp to join the motorway.
Then virtually stop at the lines as though they are give way markers, and then start looking back to see what traffic is coming and panic, instead of looking whilst they are driving along the on ramp and adjusting their speed accordingly.
I have had a few moments where I end up braking to let them on as there is traffic on my right so I can't move over, and they brake because they see me, I brake more to leave them room ETC.
Then they join and drive off and I lost most of my momentum and I can only build up my speed slowly and which isn't that fast in a big wagon.
So, it was just a thought I have had many times and I think it should be mandatory to have 2 lessons to see the different driving requirements needed for motorway driving.
Maybe you could do a bit of a tutorial (if you haven't already)? on motorway procedures?
P.S. I used to do multidrop deliveries around Liverpool in an 18 ton lorry so that is one reason I latched on to your channel.
P.P.S. can you also teach us all how to be so relaxed like you are 🤔🤔 😝😝
This is ridiculous behavior. I've submitted a report to Merseyside police including the video along with the drivers plate details.
Do keep us informed as to progress!
Nice one David, do tell on any outcome
Last reverse at 3:53 was shocking. This should have gone to the police. Sadly, posting publicly reduces the prospect of action being taken.
Had a near miss yesterday driving my bus, oncoming car swerves into my path because they were looking down at their phone. Most cars have bluetooth so there's no need to use your phone!
They are not making voice calls but using Social Media.
See this sort of thing most days, people peering down towards their phone while driving, not sure why more isn't done to stop it.
I’m sure all one would get is verbal abuse from someone like that if you spoke to them , as long as they haven’t hit anything all is ok and perfectly normal, great standards shown here. Appalling.
It's not just the driver. If I was the passenger in that car I would have got out and walked home. Many years ago when I was in college, I was offered lifts from a couple of people, but knowing they'd had some crashes in recent past I avoided it and took the bus instead. Self responsibility (and preservation!) is what they need.
I was tailgated then flashed on a motorway last week, I was already doing slightly over the speed limit of 130KPH. When she did overtake she was holding and having a conversation on her large smart phone. She just continued and tailgated the next vehicle.
Move out the way of faster moving traffic in future 😂
Darwin award contestant.
@@ZJS0113 that is very negative in this post
@@ivorjones6618 i couldn't care less. Clearly you're in the way if someone is flashing you 😂 at the end of the day, even if I was doing 100mph, I'd still be keeping left to let faster traffic pass me.
@@ZJS0113 could not care less that is the problem
It’s frightening that either yourself (Ashley) or your family members catch so many people on their phones, and other very poor driving fails, and since I’ve been following your channel I’ve noticed many such things too (I’ve also corrected some bad habits of my own!).
Thanks for what you do to improve road safely.
Really grips my sh*t people like that so addicted to their phone a right bundle of fun such intelligence her mother must be so proud. My ex wife is now ex because well one of the reasons was her phone addiction.
Brake pads wearing thin in most recent MOT. Probably due to lack of forward planning as a result of being constantly distracted.
Could also be due to not realising the car has a handbrake, if that clip is anything to go by.
Like speeding, probably because of the relatively small penalty, using a phone at the wheel seems to be treated about as seriously as getting a parking ticket. If phone use carried the same minimum penalty as drink driving maybe more people would be deterred.
I'd like to see it treated the same as running amok in the high street with a shotgun. Mandatory custodial sentence of at least 4 or 5 years. More people are killed by nutters with mobile phones than by nutters with shotguns.
I can't even. I will say the passenger in that car has nerves of steel... I'd have noped out and taken a bus home.
The thick generation strike again...
Deserves a bit of jail time.
Shocking, but also shockingly common.
Ash, that was a total and utter shocker! How anyone could think this is in any way acceptable is totally beyond me. Not to mention all that faffing around back and forth whilst waiting for her McMeal! As you pointed out, why not just park in a legitimate space to wait and be done with it. And judging by those incidents of rolling back, seems she hadn't applied the handbrake the whole time she was stopped. That and the fact that her daytime running lights were on the whole time does indeed suggest her car was "running" the entire time whilst she chatted like a magpie on her phone. And what a place to park! This is all so so wrong on so many counts. That last bit of lengthy reversing whilst not even looking back was quite something! I shudder to think how her general attitude behind the wheel is as well as her standard of driving. And yes, the Ford reversing wasn't the best either. I was quite concerned for your car there!
Unfortunately we live in a society littered with entitled people.
If anyone had tooted her or said anything I suspect that she would have gone all out offensive.
Even with the police these entitled darlings will argue their case to justify their behaviour...
They always have an excuse or justification for their behaviour but ironically will often be the most judgemental of others doing the same thing.
This one was probably daddies little princess...
when being inconsiderate becomes downright stupid and dangerous
Ashley you mentioned how ‘brazen’ she was with the mobile phone use, the reason is crystal clear - there’s no one out there to stop her anymore and she knows it. This is why she’ll go on to cause something a lot worse down the road. More enforcement of the law as it stands would help endlessly.
Why she wouldn't park up somewhere and then use the phone I will never understand
Because she hasn't been caught yet, people cut more and more corners until told otherwise.
Her friend should give her a slap
Where's Cycling Mikey when he's needed..........
He's on holiday.
@@shm5547 I bet those drivers turning right at Gandalf's Corner are loving that!
@@mda5003 the MET roads police are probably breathing a sigh of relief too! Hopefully he will return refreshed and ready to get back to it!
I didn’t see any motorists going the other side of the keep left sign yesterday. Plenty of road users not giving way to pedestrians crossing outer circle though.
@@ashley_neal Quite frankly I found it shocking to see so many drivers being caught on camera actually going the wrong side of that keep left sign putting themselves head-on to the those turning left. Okay, I realise you do have to look both ways before emerging from a junction but most will probably only look to their right when turning left. Are there any video clips of this happening elsewhere?
Thanks, Ash. I used to be totally against the whole idea of public executions.
Was this driver reported to the police Ashley?
Sure should be. This reckless childish behavior will easily kill a person next time.
If you're that bothered Joseph, you can report it yourself, using this footage as evidence. I doubt you will though!
@@benjiviews4300 I don't believe it can be reported if it's been posted on social media.
@@Captain-Cardboard yes that’s correct 👍🏻
@@Captain-Cardboard So if I commit a crime and post it to social media then it can't be reported, cool when did this new law come in?!
Mobile use is absolutely rampant. Not sure how to address it because current fines / bans don't seem to be a deterrent.
Absolutely, I have a traffic lights outside my house, the moment the lights go red the drivers can't wait to get on their phones, Tinder/Grinder is sooooo important!
I contacted the Police, they didn't even bother replying to my email.
I would think 6 points is quite a lot (I would rather not get any, personally) but the punishment could be death, means nothing if it doesn’t get enforced!
I bet she'll cry "the police should be out catching real criminals" when she gets pulled over too
Eh Ashley, tha, must've lived a sheltered life lad. That's nowt compared to what happens over here in West Yorkshire. Speeding along congested 20mph side roads, at 40mph+, phone in hand making video calls. In our town, at light controlled junctions, there isn't a single pedestrian barrier that hasn't been smashed into.
yeah I'm seeing a lot more buckled barriers than I did a few years ago, wouldn't be surprised if the councils are also taking longer to fix them than they used to but the phone driving going on the last few years is unbelievable.
Seen that one too, operating the satnav with one hand and a communication device with the other, steering with one knee, failed to make the corner and went straight thru the railings on the junction behind West Yorkshire Police Headquarters, in full uniform with sergeants stripes in a marked patrol car. Council have since removed the railings so if he does it again it's more likely to cause a death. West Yorkshire Police setting a great example to the public once again!
@@joinedupjon They don't bother here. If they did, they'd be smashed again within a couple o' weeks. 🙄
Shocking. It's a pity the camera didn't pick up the license plate. I hope that one of the security cameras did and this driver has been reported to the police.
PN13 FXC Peugeot 108
People like her are with the mindset that the laws are a joke and are there to "irritate and annoy people", so they do what they please and think they can get away with it. A friend of mine thought the exact same, speeding in a 30mph zone, hitting 90. Well, guess what - he learnt the hard way. Had to watch his rs4 getting squished into a metal box. He's still paying finance on the car and will be paying for some years to come.
And to be honest forget the fines, getting your license taken etc, what about your own safety, that of the passanger/s in your car, as well as the other road users? I mean it's common sense, but some people fail to apply it...
I really am against do-gooders bombarding the police with every little infraction they see,
But every now and again you see something like this where you think “we need to get that idiot off the road”
So I hope you reported and submitted this video.
Spoke with my boss yesterday about a colleagues driving with a phone, he's been taken off driving duties.
Millennial drivers are too focus with video calling and posting live feeds on their social to focus on real world surrounding them.
This is a prime example in this clip of lack of attention and safety for those around them. Can you imagine a family or a child walking out towards their car and this disgrace of a driver rolls back into them whilst on a phone? Shocking driving from all levels.
License Plate - PN13FXC
Don't lump me in with her. Plenty of old farts doing the same thing too...
Here in Belgium you will now actually lose your license if you're caught using your mobile phone behind the wheel! Also if you're using it as a GPS when it's not properly secured.
I have to wonder, what was *so* important that it caused this person to use their phone and be like this? They better be frantically blowing up Thanos's notifications to distract him from destroying the Universe, or else there is no reason for this.
Maybe his finger snap will take out all those who drive while on the phone.
You had no need to blur the plate or face. She was in public, there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. Did anyone manage to download the unedited version? As usual, Neal only reports if it affects him, no matter how dangerous the behaviour
This really infuriates me. I see it all the time. As someone else has said, the driving standards now are appalling. No lights on in fog or after lighting up time, speeding, tailgating, using wrong lanes deliberately just to get a few cars in front, and the most common one now seems to be pulling out of a side road in front of oncoming traffic. You definitely take your life into your hands nowadays as well as enduring these tosspots on mobiles.
Just did an MOT check on the car.
2021: Advisory - Items removed from driver's view prior to test (FAIL)
Retest: Advisory - Items removed from driver's view prior to test (PASS). (So she put the objects back in her view after the first test??)
I wonder if she put those things back in her view again after that. Not that it would make a lot of difference if she is just looking down all the time...
I followed someone some time ago driving into Bluewater shopping centre, they mounted a roundabout and then a kerb. Sure enough they were on their phone.
I am glad you posted this for the world to see, however this really needs to go to the police as well unless it already has, if this female isn't reprimanded by the authorities then she will do this many more times, and won't be so lucky to reverse like that and not hit someone.
On the vid description, the problem is the Gov keeps adding or changing laws, but the constant cutbacks to the Police force and the crap they have to do away from the streets makes it virtually impossible for these to be caught without being sent the evidence.
20 yrs ago I caught someone stealing a £30 aftershave, the officer that came for the scrotum said he will have to do 3hrs of paperwork and booking just for a warning to be given, and the only change since then is it's computerised but still needs typing in.
You NEED to report her to police as a responsible citizen. I would have done it without thinking.
Most right minded would have done, let’s hope someone did.
Its not just driving its everywhere. My wife and I were waiting at the departure gate in Jersey airport, there were two 30ish women waiting there too, each had a young daughter about 8 or 9 years old. The one woman was telling her daughter all about how the airport works and the little girl was asking loads of questions. The other woman had her head stuck in her phone and was totally ignoring her little girls attempts to communicate with her, in the end the girl gave up trying and retreated into her own world.
I agree, and car in-built screens are also very dangerous in my opinion. They may be bigger and higher (and also legal) but when using one you’re not looking at the road, or if you are, it’s with peripheral vision which is not enough. They could probably be used safely with a quick glance but it’s so easy to get distracted for a little longer than is safe. So this woman is blatantly behaving awfully, but people need to be conscious of the more cryptic dangers too which are every bit as lethal.
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.
For example, you must not text, make calls, take photos or videos, or browse the web.
The law still applies to you if you’re:
stopped at traffic lights
queuing in traffic
supervising a learner driver
driving a car that turns off the engine when you stop moving
holding and using a device that’s offline or in flight mode
I was just sat in a 30 minute blockage of the M40 with a phone driver behind. No tyres and tarmac for her, but even after being stationary for 5 minutes her car was edging forwards, I was waiting for the bump. Totally engrossed in the phone, glasses being fidgeted with and zero awareness of the surroundings. In over 20 minutes of being stationary(ISH!), they obviously never applied the handbrake, that's how unaware of the situation they were in. Clearly not the only one, because when we set off, I had a choice of lanes as a 400+ metre gap opened up behind me.
Ohhhhhh ughhhhhhhh 🤬🤬🤬🤬 this has really made my blood boil!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬 selfish, inconsiderate and oblivious. What a total (insert what ever word comes to mind)
That 100% needs to be reported. She's not the type of person who will learn from a simple bit of education; not with that attitude. She needs to face consequences.
I feel like phone use whilst driving is on the rise again, I see at least 3 drivers doing it every day at this point. I have saved a dashcam clip recently of a van driver, in a company van who has their phone blatantly in their hand whilst driving. Might start reporting drivers to their company when I see phone use by their drivers.
3 per day...That all..
Im averaging 6 - 8 per day every day.
They cannot leave the things alone.
I cannot understand why people still hold phones whilst driving, hands free devices are so cheap.
I would say unbelievable but seen far too many vids showing people on their phones whilst driving and in real life to be surprised. They do not even realise they are a danger to themselves and others.
It doesn't shock me at all. This country is awash with these type of dim, selfish people.
Nearly car who comes through our drive thru at McDonald's texts while driving. It is irritating when you are tasked with managing the traffic flow. We have a rear end crash at least once a month as a result.
Currently it's 6 points and £200 fine, but it should be a 6 month ban and an extended driving test afterwards.
I can’t believe that reverse past the give way. I’d be terrified to do that manoeuvre with full concentration, she’s doing it while shouting across the car park and not looking. It has to be impressed upon every driver that every second you’re driving is a second you could kill or seriously injure someone - like there, what if a cyclist had been coming and hit into her. She’s riding her luck driving like that, and it’s inevitable that if she continues to do so her luck will run out someday. Sadly, it’ll probably be someone else who pays the price.
Looking at Merseyside Police website you can report this sort of thing but there are 3 criteria that have to be met for the footage to be used in court:
1. The evidence must be in your possession - both the original and a copy
2. Not have been edited or manipulated in any way
3. Not have been shared on the internet (including social media)
Doesn't stop anyone trying to report it I guess, including Ashley himself
Police enforcement of mobile phone offences is virtually non existent in Derbyshire also . You dont need to look for drivers using their phones while driving , they do it so brazenly . Glad I stumbled across your channel Ashley , gives me plenty of food for thought and pointers to improve my driving . I passed my advanced test in 1987 in a series 1 RS Turbo when the roads could still be enjoyed .
would love to know your thoughts on smoking and vaping while driving. i watched someone trying to park and vape at the same time today and they mounted the curb because they werent concentrating
Gosh if I'd been her passenger I would have been frightened for my own safety in such a small car.
I think most people with any sense would have told her to put the phone away or get out the car. I suspect she knows very few people with common sense.
Let it go. Find the missed call when you are parked legal and safe with engine off and Like I just have call back or make the call. Even hands free a phone call is distraction that takes your attention off the road.
...What's got four wheels, drives peculiar,
Bouncing cars up on the kerb,
Doesn't look when she's reversing
Answer is THAT Liver bird!
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Wow, that's disgusting behaviour and she needs to be dealt with HARSHLY with the full force of the law.
DISGUSTING BEYOND ALL BELIEF.
Odd Question Ashley, If you pass your test in an electric car (Soon to be the only cars available for sale), do you just get an auto licence? What will happen to all the teenagers who can only afford to drive older manual cars? Just a thought for a new video?
Unfortunately this is why we need to return to the Bobbys on the beat way of policing the streets. CCTV isn't a remedy because that relies on the crime having already happened and it's also about providing a deterent. People will behave better when they know there is a police officer in the area and their partner who can arrest them or at least give them a telling off and a vetbal clip round the ear. I'll be happy to pay a bit more in taxes to have safer streets like this and a neighbourhood police officer or two who knows me by name in an old fashioned sort of way. People will grumble but if you've got a clean conscience then you have nothing to fear.
I think this driver's blatant disregard for other people's safety should be dealt with by disqualification.
Beggars belief. I only pray she doesn't kill or seriously injure someone. Thanks for shining the light Ashley. 👍
Great video, using your phone while driving is worse than drink driving, yet a lot of people do it, and it's illigal
Watching Ashley’s and Reg Local’s videos have helped me up my game to help me avoid contact with idiots such as this one here, I’ve been driving since 1984, you never stop learning.
She shouldn't be on the road. Shocking. Full stop!
As a motorists you still see drivers each day on their mobile phones. However I am also a motorcyclist which gives you a unique vantage point, particularly when filtering past stationary traffic, e.g. in a queue for traffic lights. Almost without fail I will see motorists using their phone, often trying to secrete the phone in their lap, while waiting.
Sadly, It is not just in Liverpool. I see so many drivers using mobile phones in the car. Only this week, I had a van right on my tail in heavy but fast-moving traffic approaching the accident blackspot that is the Winnall Roundabout outside Winchester. (Where the A34 ends and joins the M3 Motorway via a traffic-light controlled roundabout). People just don't care.
A whole bunch of years ago, when use of a mobile phone whilst driving had just became a traffic offence under Queensland (Australia) law, I got caught and was fined a bit over AUD330.
This is what happened:- I had called someone who I had to meet on a job site somewhere but he had a habit of speaking softly and I didn't have a bluetooth connection on my phone. The speaker wasn't loud enough, so I picked up the phone and put it up to my ear and drove along a road looking for where he was at. He said he was in a shopping centre down the road a bit and eventually came to it and drove straight in and parked. But a police car followed me in and stopped next to me. The 2 policemen got out and approached me and said that the saw me on the phone whilst driving. As I knew I had, I didn't try to argue the case. After they gave me the ticket, I asked them where they saw me using my phone. They said I was going one direction, they were going the other and saw me on the phone, they did a U-turn and followed me all the way (about a km, I guess) into the shopping centre where we were all now at. I said that that was fair enough, as I WAS SO DISTRACTED TALKING ON THE PHONE I DIDN'T SEE THEM AT ALL! If a kid had had stepped out in front of me, I shudder to wonder if I would have seen him/her at all. I have no pity for anyone caught using their phone whilst driving. I think the fine is now about $1100, thereabouts. I lot of money to waste on a stupid phone call, I'll give you the drum...
Once I was on the main road and this woman emerging from the side road didn’t even look and pulled out. I’m not surprised, she had her phone on her and didn’t even bother to look or say sorry when she saw me
I literally see this kind of behaviour every single day.
Most often by the youngsters.
Surely that’s driving without due care at the very least.