Common Driving distractions

Its the same thing, anything that take your attention from road is bad and can be dealt with.

the best one for me is pedestrians, so example you are distracted to avoid killing the kid that just ran in front of you and in the process hit an other car, killing the little old lady driving it. a lose lose situation there. So in that case you would be better off hitting the kid as at least you were paying atention when you hit him

The worst one I've seen is:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2284034.html

Set fire to his cab while cooking sausages on his camping stove as he was driving. Wonder if his sausages were burnt.

Originally Posted by neio79

the best one for me is pedestrians, so example you are distracted to avoid killing the kid that just ran in front of you and in the process hit an other car, killing the little old lady driving it. a lose lose situation there. So in that case you would be better off hitting the kid as at least you were paying atention when you hit him

Haven't got a clue how you figured that out. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me
How would hitting the kid that steps in front of you make you seem like a more attentive driver than the one that takes evasive action and has an accident with another car?

Some are already banned from being done, like mobile phones and televisions. But I agree we should ban pedestrians and advertisements from the streets to make it more complete. That way there'd be less distractions for careless driving.

i somtimes take a cup of tea, and drink it on the way to work.

But do you put the camping stove on the passanger seat, boil the water, milk the cow on the back seat and make your tea? If not, then the German lorry driver still has you beat.

I was once copping a sneaky peak at a workman whilst driving along in a queue of traffic... it was summer, really hot and this guy was super fit, half dressed (apart from the reflective vest) and well worth the ogle. Next thing I felt "bump" and I`d slightly veered whilst ogling and run over the line of traffic cones!! The queue of traffic was held up for 10 mins whilst the workmen had to remove the cones from under my car!!

Serious careless driving offence you've comitted there then but banning workmen from the roads would cause less roadworks as well, and a lot less botched up road surfaces.

Originally Posted by GastonJ

Serious careless driving offence you've comitted there then but banning workmen from the roads would cause less roadworks as well, and a lot less botched up road surfaces.

Ban workmen!!!! what else would I look at as I`m driving along??? ok, ban all workmen with builders bums but not the fit ones