Jofftastic

In what can only be fathomed as a desperate PR stunt, a UK insurance company has called for a ban on in-car mobile phone usage for the under 20′s.
Obviously they’ve put a lot of time and effort into identifying that at 20 years old, a driver is now mature enough to safely use a phone with a hands free kit.
I’m sorry but what a crock of shit.

Some facts (I know they’re facts because I just made them up):

• Mobile phone use is a distraction.
• Young drivers are involved in accidents

Maybe if the statement issued by “Trotters Independant Insurance” asked for all inexperienced drivers to be banned from using the phone, it might make a slight amount of sense, but then we move onto the problem of how the ban is enforced.

Speed cameras already have a tough job trying to catch motorists eating their corned beef sarnies whilst applying their lipstick and smoking a cigarette (if anything, these motorists must be pretty advanced drivers to be able to do all that whilst operating a vehicle) and the Police are over stretched, being forced to park on yellow lines whilst getting their fish and chips.

So in all reality, it’s not going to happen and if it did, no-one would pay any attention to it.

Commenting in his blog, Auto Express’s Chris Thorp states pretty much the same argument that it’s completely unenforceable when really the Police should be focusing on all bad driving.