Stupid Lorry Driver Texts While Driving And Crashes Into Innocent Motorists
This is the moment that 30-year-old Razvan Rusu took his eyes off the road for a few seconds to send a text message. In those few seconds, he smashed into the back of innocent motorists, injuring two people. Incredibly, nobody was killed in the smash, and more incredibly still, the quick-thinking driver of the Vauxhall Astra managed to duck out of Rusu’s way just before the massive impact. Romanian-born Rusu was sentenced to eight months jail time for dangerous driving.
So with further evidence that motorists continue to use their phones while driving, what do you think should be done about it? Instant, one-year bans for people caught on their mobiles? New in-car technology that sets the airbags off when the car detects that you’re being a moron?
Let us know how you’d tackle this problem to make our roads a much safer place.
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this might happen to you one day ..dont text and drive fr
Heavier punishments won’t work unless you have the police to catch the people doing it. Last week, in the space of 30 seconds, I saw 3 cars drive past a school, all with their drivers glancing down at their laps obviously checking phones.
Worse than drunk driving in some ways. Atleast then, someone is driving the car.
I’m pretty sure he does still hit the Astra
Whilst I don’t condone it at all, I believe having an actual call on the phone is safer than texting as you are still paying attention to the road and a lot of time you can drive one handed. I think that since the law changed to make mobile phone use a specific crime, a lot of people switched to texting because holding your phone below the windscreen is thought to be less obvious and less chance of getting caught. However it is more dangerous to be looking down at your phone and not on the road.
“quick-thinking driver of the Vauxhall Astra managed to duck out of Rusu’s way just before the massive impact” The truck still hit the astra though. wasn’t quick enough
While I was riding my motorbike saw a driver texting and driving so i revved my engine at him next to his window (which was closed) and he started to road rage and tried to be intimidating.
If we could make it so that speedcameras aswell as monitoring or speed could actaully spot if someone was on their phone. So when the camera spotted something it would take a picture and send it to the police where an officer would have the final say if someone was on their phone or not and if found guilty give a kind of punishment.