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I wont use the phone in the car anymore I realised like others that it redused my perception. Before mobile phones we survived with out being contactable while driving and the caller can wait til I finish my journey or I can pull over somehwere safe. No call is that important that I have an accident.
When I was in traffic officer training 30 yrs ago we were told then that anyone eating or drinking did not have 'proper control' of the car and could be charged with careless driving.
A lot of laws are media driven by whipping up public hysteria and getting news hungry polies to jump on the band wagon. We all should be very careful as these laws can be used against us in ways we didnt imagine like the example with the cops and just check time at the lights.
Now I have seen the effect of this. My daughter was in a head on crash. She lost her partner. Spend 5 weeks on life support. Around five months in hospital with critical brain damage, fractured spine, neck and pelvis. As well as punctued lungs and spleen damage.
It took 8 months before she realised her partner had gone and wasnt coming in for Christmas. She became suicidal over that and we thought we were going to lose her again. She had no recollection of the crash but was under the impression that if charged she was going to jail. She said she would commit suicide if this happened and I know she meant that. At this stage couldnt remeber last two years of her life.
It took us more that a year to find someone had dumped ten meters of oil on the road on the first winter rain, her car hit this and spun into oncoming vehicles.
She was classed by the hospital as will spend the rest of her life in an institution.
She defied this and has just finished 3rd year at uni and is working with people with disabilities part time.
Prison would have robbed us of a daughter and not allowed her to be productive in society.
I see calls like this as being very similar to throwing someone to the lions, great fun us long as it does'nt affect us.
What about higher demerits, higher fines or even some form of community service for the hospitals where accident victims end up?
NO this will not get that prosecutor the headlines that will gain him notoriety and help him leap frog other prosecutors at the annual promotions fest.
Graelin
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