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  The government bodies have explained to us often enough how our concentration wavers while we are driving and talking on the phone at the same time. Research was so clear into the matter that it was made illegal to do it. Recently there have been heavy sentances in some cases where people were even killed while some guy chats away on the phone oblivious to whats going on around him.
  
  Does that stop people doing it? not a bit.
  Even today I saw a near accident all down to some guy chatting away and driving with one hand. It would not have been a serious accident but an accident none the less.
  
  Guy in first car chatting away, driving with right hand while holding phone in right ear with left hand, and all the while checking some notes. This guy stops. All this time there is a very very large white van directly behind him. You couldnt miss it, its so big and large and very white.
  
  The guy in the first car suddenly reverses, all the while chatting on the phone and checking his notes, and all the while still still oblivious to the white van behind him. The white van driver of course is not expecting some nut to reverse but reverse he does. He honks his horn like mad and the reverser stops within an inch of van.
  
  No real harm would have been done, but it would have been an accident nonetheless with the resultant damage to said vehicles.
  
  So despite it being illegal, despite heavy jail sentences and deaths, people are still doing it. It was quite clear watching this unfurl today that people most certainly do not concentrate on their driving while telephoning. It's lethal.

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