GREENDOG gets done over by the boys in blue

You seem to be admitting to checking the phone to see if there was a message while driving.

In Victoria, holding the phone and checking the screen is regarded as using the phone, because it means the driver is not concentrating on the road. It doesn't matter (quite correctly) if the phone hasn't rung, or if there is no signal. You can still create or attempt to create a text message when there is no signal.

I'm happy that you didn't run headlong into someone's son or daughter with your 8 tonne truck while you were not paying attention, and it sounds like you deserved to be pulled over.

Hey Greendog,

I reckon they should've booked you as you have admitted to looking at the phone...that is enough...read the rules. And when you see an accident with a dead body from someone "checking their phone" (who has never had an accident in their life) then you might feel different.

Stop ya whinging mate and get on with it, YOU GOT A CAUTION :)

The COPS are out there trying to do the right thing by the good people and if it takes a ticket or two, then so be it. How many times have you got away with something...anything... ????

Oh well, this message will probably stir you up a little, but I am being factual friend. be cool :)

BOOO HOO get over it ya sook!!!!

Ya f@rked up and got caught!!!!

Not sideing with anyone, but what's the differance between checking a phone, changing a CD or cassette, changing a station or mucking around with one of those MP3 players. You still take your eyes off the road. Yeh ! & I used to push Semi's ! I think some people tend to be overreact & pretend to be JC or Osama with a major prediction of a disaster about to happen. Everyone is guilty of taking there eyes off the road for various reasons or you ain't a male!

Gerhardp1 And Dunco,

Are you two clowns for real !
I suppose you're going to tell us that you've never taken your eyes off the road to look at a billboard or read a street sign or heaven forbid move your eyes inside your vehicle to read your gauges !!
Pair of twits.

Pezza

Why is it that you can go through a drive thru and buy a big-mac a large coke & chips and eat that whilst driving but cant talk on the phone. Yes I admit to talking on the phone while driving and have also eaten food while driving. I know which one is more dangerous.

Steve

As usual, the cops are the bad guys! Just doing their job and getting abused for it.

I wonder who you would call if you came home to find your house burgled................

As far as I can recall from the SA road rules - HOLDING your phone is an offence under the act!

They did get a minor amendment in recent months for some poor bloke who got busted touching the answer button on his phone (while is was in the HFK holder!) so that you can know press the answer button on the phone BUT it is STILL ILLEGAL to HOLD the phone AT ALL whilst driving...sorry but you got BUSTED!

ahhh Manoora - popular place for being busted - plenty of people whip through there without a care in the world - and get busted doing 70-90 in the 25 school zone - expensive mistake and GREAT revenue raiser!

Years ago, when mobiles were a newish thing, and "use rules" didn't exist, my wife got hit in the rear at speed by some dude on his mobile. Our 2 year old daughter in back of car & all. At the time I was away for work in the Flinders Ranges - no mobile there, only HF radio. They had trouble contacting me. Troubled time and NO LOSS OF LIFE. Imagine if it had been worse.

'Play the Sailor - Pay the PRICE'.

Next thing you know you won't be able to scratch ya nut's wile driving without being fined for it.

a few years ago i was pulled over for being on the phone while driving. was a bit annoyed that the copper who pulled me over was talking on his phone( and driving) whilst waving me to pull over. when i queried him i was informed that coppers were exempt due to special skills. at the time i was driving approx 160000 k per year and had done so for many years accident free.i would consider my driving skills particularly in urban areas at least equal. exemptions make a mockery on enforcement claims that using a mobile is equal to being in excess of .05

GREENDOG
your post started -->""Well there i was driving my 8 tonne v8 super car last Friday. Just out side a little farming community called Manoora.when i got pulled over by an un marked cop car for BEING ON THE PHONE ""

Now it's either legal or it's ILLEGAL to 'use a phone while in control of a motor vehicle' look up the actual wording of the law it's on page ..........


If it's NOT legal, and you get caught breaking the law, then it's not the coppers fault, he's only upholding the law, after all that's his job, that's what we as citizens who pay tax's request him to do.
The government makes the laws and the Police have to enforce them.


I fail to see why a copper would pull you up if he did not see, what appeared to him, as you "using" your phone in some way, which is deemed ILLEGAL, and his job authorises him to "advise" you of that.


I do hope this is taken as being delivered in a pleasant, politely spoken voice as I have typed it nicely and quietly lol


( Any one ever asked why it's NOT illegal to use the CB while driving ?? )

Ooops! wrong button :-)))))


Hi Mainey!

Sometimes legality has very little to do with safety and this draconical “mobile phone law” has absolutely nothing to do with safety, but simple revenue rising exercise. By far it is *MOST* disobeyed rule on the road and I have not seen any evidence that because of mobiles we have higher road tolls.

Independent research shown that there is no difference in “distraction factor” between hand-held devices and hands-free. Conversation itself distract more than everything else combined.

Now lets employ a little common sense. When using hands-free one has to take his/her eyes from the road and look who is calling (probably not going to pick-up). Next you need locate green button and answer. If using normal mobile one can just lift it to his/her site and answer without removing eyes from the road. When it comes to make a call then hands-free is total disaster – it is absolutely impossible to make call without major disruption while ordinary device it is enough just lift it above your wheel.

Not only that – hands-free quality far worst then normal phones and often phone lying somewhere in console rendering bad reception. Thus conversation tends to be longer and require more attention with hands-free.

Not lets talk about something else. My common sense in combination with 25 years crash-free experience yelling that using portable MP3 players far much worse then mobiles (for talking, not for TXT – arguably most disastrous behavior). MP3 design tend to be small and has very small characters. In additional interface in majority of them done in such way that it make it impossible to operate device without seeing screen. Yet I know nothing about banning MP3 players in cars. Satellite navigation (when setting up) not far behind MP3 – even located quite convenient they are far from ideal in terms of ergonomics.

Next lets came to using something like Melway while driving. Smoking far more destructive and dangerous then talking. And how about drinking coffee while driving passing it from one hand to another to make turn.

And to finish this I can tell you what I saw by my own eyes. On freeway at about 100km/hr one lady was driving and petting her pet dog on her knees. At the same time she was holding Melway on the wheel. Not enough – she was smoking also. But hey, she did not talk on the phone so everything what she was doing was legal and therefore as some can say safe.

No-one can convince me that this mobile rules in our safety favor. I believe that in their revenue rising favor.

And last things. I hate mobiles and never talk more then 30-60 seconds on them.

Cheers
Serg