Driving a car while on a cell phone! What can be more dangerous!!

I agree 100% with you when you say there is not one thing that important that people have to talk no the cell phone and drive. I have had so many near misses of being hit by people talking on the cell phones and not watching the road. They run red lights, so side to side. I won't even call my husband when I know he is on his way home as I don't want him on the phone and driving, and he doesn't either. He always calls me as he is getting in the car at work to see if I need anything on the way home. They even came out with head sets for people to use well driving and I see very few of them being used. I guess they will wake up when they get into a accident and all I can say I hope it isn't me and they don't end up killing someone well on a phone call...

I agree with you completly and use of hands frees dont help either as one's attention is still not on the road.

One shouldn't talk on mobiles while driving, if you have an important call just brake on a side and than talk.

I hate it too. Cell phones are one of my pet peeves. I started this discussion three months ago: "What do you think of people who use their cell phones while driving?" I confess that I do actually have a cell phone, but I hardly ever use it as I find it mostly unnecessary. I don't feel the need to constantly be in contact with everyone I know. Most conversations can wait until I am home. I find people using cell phones everywhere very annoying! Hang it up and pay attention to what is happening around you! Watch out for that kid on the bicycle you almost hit because you were too busy talking or texting on it! Focus on driving if you are operating a vehicle! No time for the cell there! When was the last time you bumped into someone on the sidewalk because either you the other person were distracted by it? How about those morons at the theater or meeting who didn't turn off their cell and thus disrupt everyone else when a call comes in! I find these noisy/ringing devices so very very annoying I just want to destroy them all! Now because man has so embraced these portable transceivers we have all those ugly cell towers dotting the land and destroying the natural beauty of Gods good earth. Telephone poles and power lines are more then enough thanks! I realize I am very much in the minority with this but the more cells have invaded our lives the more I have learned to hate them. News flash. You are not going to die without a cellular phone! Your dependance on it is all in your head. You don't have to always be seconds away from talking to everyone you know. Most people talking on cell phones don't actually have anything really IMPORTANT to say. Everyone thinks that they do but if they knew the truth they might find what they have to say is really only important to them. Not always, but more often then not. Most conversations could actually wait until you can actually tell the person you want to talk to in person. People in the store who can't seem to buy anything before checking with the person who they love. Talk about insecure! Can't remember everything you came to buy? Make an old fashioned list. Probably takes less time then making the call. I can't begin to count the times I have had close encounters with other drivers who instead of focusing on their driving instead are texting or dialing or conversing with someone they could wait till they got home to talk to! How about the folks in the next booth at the restaurant who keep talking louder and louder on their cell because you have to do the same to be heard by the people AT YOUR TABLE?! Then they get all bent because you are interfearing with their phone conversation. *sheeez The Zagat restaurant guide reports that cell phone rudeness is now the number one complaint of diners, and USA Today notes that “fifty-nine percent of people would rather visit the dentist than sit next to someone using a cell phone.” I’ve listened to strangers discuss in excruciating detail their own and others’ embarrassing medical conditions. In the past few years alone, men and women have been stabbed, escorted off of airplanes by federal marshals, pepper-sprayed in movie theaters, ejected from concert halls, and deliberately rammed with cars as a result of their bad behavior on their cell phones. With phones ringing in movies, weddings and classrooms, it's no wonder people want to tone down the intrusion. So what legally can be done to stop annoying cell-phone use? If on the road pull over and stop somewhere before using it. If you are indoors join the smokers outside the building if you need to shout into your phone. Don't be so rude.

Yes I agree with you. Even I was the victim of rash driving of a cell phone user while driving. He hit my car from back. He refused to acknowledge that was his mistake. There should be some sensor in the car that will divert any incoming calls and no signal for any outgoing calls while the driver is on the wheel. This way we can curb this menace.

Well, the simple solution is, when people are caught, they don't get a small fine, they lose their license for 6 months. If they do it again after that, they lose it for 2 years. Not many people would do it a second time. We just need governments with guts to really get stuck into these idiots. I have to say I'm tired of seeing arrogant, irresponsible, agressive and downright stupid people on the roads. Sad fact is, a large % of the population behaves this way now, and not just in their driving, but many other aspects of their lives (though that is a discussion for elsewhere). Just sit at a bus stop near an intersection and watch how people behave on the roads, how many are using phones, eating, doing their makeup, and so many other stupid behaviours, it is amazing the road toll is as low as it is...

I guess driving is a very serious affair and one needs to be really cautious while driving....Attending calls while driving is a Stupidity and not carelessness....It is an act of stupidity if you are playing with your life like this

The police are the lands biggest law breakers, and when,caught breaking laws should not be shown any mercy as for the comman man it is best to exercise caution and follow the rules for your safety and the safety of others.

I think having a sense of responsibility towards safety of self and others will go along way instead of depending on the police whose primary function now is to collect bribes, and that to in front of their superior officers the police dept to function efficiently should be given on contract

yes it is more dangerous.

actually, there are many ways to answer a phone call.. if its' important. thay can buy headsets and connect it to their phone.. right? its much safer.

talking on cell phones during driving is dangerous n police should check on it strictly.

I agree,is very very dangerous!!

You are so right. people should pull over or call them from home or where ever they are going!!

It is very very dangerous and it can lead not only porblems to you but it can take innoicent people's life also very easily as indirectly you will be responsible for their killing use hand-free devices u have to use a cellphone or just switch it off

hmmmmmm.... u r right , this really is a serious problem, we all of us should avoid this, it really is dangerous

I have a cellphone but i never use it while driving because it is dangerous and you should never take your eyes off the road if i need to use my cell then i pull over and then make the call.i do not know why people cant take the clue and pull over.they should make it illegal to use a cellphone while driving because it can cause a accident.

I agree with you and police should break mobile in the spot they catch them and fine them at least $1000 than thy will not take mobiles on even cycles .

its is so sad that my dad answers phone calls while driving. he says he only answers calls from his boss and when he thinks the call is urgent. however its still the same, driving while talking on the phone is damn dangerous. he has a wireless headset but he doesnt use it. i guess adults are really hardheaded, lol

this past week i even watched police doing it and it happends to illegal in my state .dont these people realize how and they actually blamed the other driver for being pull over for a few seconds and talk.Their life can't be that important that they can not slow down and discuss what ever is being discussed.I really don't have an answer for this problem. the police have enough to do than to pull over everyone thatlooks like they are on a phone ut something needs to be done. more acciedents are happpeningand people are just not getting the message .what really make me afraid is when parents have children in their car and they are on the phone .can you say stupid and careless.