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Mobile Phone use while driving - Liphook Dad (16th Sep 2025 - 10:02:00) If you know a lady who drives a Red VW Up and was in Liphook this morning, please can you let them know that it's not great to stop your car in the road way at the narrowest point (leaving the car park next to the old Lloyds Bank) in the middle of the school run and be on your phone. Not to mention it being illegal to be in control of a vehicle and using your mobile phone. The fact that the car rolled back as we were about to pass and could have hit my kids wasn't great either. So you can see why I wasn't happy with the situation and had to get their attention. "I wasn't driving" doesn't cut it I'm afraid, your awareness was dramatically and demonstrably impaired. And yes, we needed to pass as I had no idea how long they were going to be stopped for - even if we had waited the teenagers going to Bohunt wouldn't have. Simple message: Do not use your phone whilst in control of a vehicle. Go and park up properly if you need to send a message. I also spotted another driver coming up the Longmoor Road with kids in their car also messaging on their phone! Just stop it!

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - D (16th Sep 2025 - 11:33:29) The way of the country these days unfortunately, no-one wants to abide by rules. Look how many were flouting the COVID laws five years ago. Personally I'm more concerned about parents placing their children in supermarket trollies and parading them around oblivious to the obvious hygiene issue. It's only the parents who think the sun shines out of their offspring's arse, no-one else.

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - C (16th Sep 2025 - 15:15:52) Nothing makes me more livid than people using their phone when they're driving and I see it every single day without exception. For the avoidance of doubt, it is illegal to use a hand-held mobile phone or similar device when the engine is on, EVEN if the car is stopped at traffic lights or in traffic,or if it has a start/stop engine function. There is not one single excuse for using a phone when driving. Even in an emergency, pull up and park and turn the engine off. It's utterly irresponsible and selfish.

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - PR (16th Sep 2025 - 16:54:27) Great postings all of you - so fed up with shitty kids in supermarket trolleys - totally unhygenic .... I recently had an encounter, while walking my Collie , with a Yummy Mummy carrying her baby in a sling with two of her own large dogs in tow - no poo bags in sight - who took exception to my docile sheepdog Her comment - ' Stay away, I've got a lickle baby ' My reply - that's OK we are vegetarians - Happy days !!

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - D (16th Sep 2025 - 17:27:02) Thankyou for your support, PR. I recently made a quiet comment to a similar mother in Sainsbury's of "how unhygienic is that". I've never seen such an evil look in my life, if looks could kill.

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - PR (16th Sep 2025 - 18:01:26) D - Yes, well you are completely right - I am not anti baby but shitty pants and shoes in a trolley are gross. I pick up my dog's poo - all of it Why do some people with children think they are immune from behaving in a social manner ... In contrast the same as those who park in ' People With Children Spaces ' who clearly don't have a child ... I always ask them - ' Forgotten the baby ' Yeah - let's moan on ....

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - D (16th Sep 2025 - 18:53:48) Quite agree, PR. My gripe is with the ignorant self entitled parents. I'm going to start a campaign called "STOP HAVING INFANTS in TROLLIES".

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - er (16th Sep 2025 - 22:46:54) C, having your engine off is no defence in terms of the offence of 'holding and using your phone whilst driving' Driving is the key, being anytime at all that you are behind the wheel of a motorcar on a public highway, except when parked up in a lawful parking spot where there can be no reasonable expectation that you would be required to move at any point, so even if you are stuck at say a railway crossing and the barrier is down, in neutral, handbrake on, engine off, you cannot hold and use your phone, it is an offence, on or off. But there's no offence as you suggested of using your phone whilst driving, at least there is no offence that says it is illegal to use your phone whilst driving, you can in theory use it whilst doing 100 on the motorway, or more (you may however be prosecuted for speeding or careless driving, but you won't be prosecuted for phone use!)...as long as it's in a phone holder and you don't need to hold it at all! The offence is therefore purely 'holding and using your phone whilst driving', nothing more, nothing less. Pedantic moment over!

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - Jon (17th Sep 2025 - 07:36:44) Good, albeit as you say pedantic, point er. It’s about time the offence had the same penalties as drink driving.

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - Jon (17th Sep 2025 - 08:04:38) D, I’d rather be bumped by a supermarket trolley with a kid on board, than being run over by a driver paying more attention to their mobile phone than their driving. This post is about mobile phone use not supermarket trollies.

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - C (17th Sep 2025 - 09:02:21) er - not sure of your point. I am fully against mobile phone use in the car!

Re: Mobile Phone use while driving - Charlie (17th Sep 2025 - 10:43:30) PR I loved your posts. The last sentences made me smile.

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