Thread: Mobile phone delete in vehicles

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I take only one exception to the first statement. Crashes are caused by negligence, intent or omission, there are rarely any unforeseeable accidental causes.

Semantics !!

Accident: noun 1. an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss; casualty; mishap:


I doubt anyone (well maybe an extremely small proportion) goes out with the deliberate intent to crash - whether they are ****ed or as high as a kite.


Martyn

Some people do suicide by crashing their vehicles.

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I think that if Diana took exception to my post and I said fair enough then it's fair enough. Really it is fair enough.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

It's bizarre, Isn't it, how there can be a law against using mobile phones in vehicles but not against walking across a road using a Mobile Phone?

At work we have strict policies about 'walking and talking' in our own yards on mobiles due to several 'near hits'. Anyone caught doing this gets a first and final warning, we have had a yardman and a sales rep fired in the last 18 months for this.

Anyhow, federal law prohits interfering with telecommunications services, which the Tasmanian law proposes.

Originally Posted by Bushie

Semantics !!
Accident: noun 1. an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss; casualty; mishap:

I doubt anyone (well maybe an extremely small proportion) goes out with the deliberate intent to crash - whether they are ****ed or as high as a kite.

Martyn

The ethical question behind the use of the word crash instead of accident is that that the incidents are almost always foreseeable and the result of human factors even if they weren't intentional. Lack of maintenance, lack of due attention, inappropriate actions for the environmental conditions, distraction, fatigue etc. In contemporary health/road crash research literature the use of the term accident is now tending to be used only for other events outside human factors which could be called acts of God.

Tell me, all you knowledgeable people, what is the difference between using a phone while driving and using a two way radio. Is using a two way radio illegal?

I would think there would be no difference to your attention wandering from the task of driving despite which device you use.

Yes, 2 way radios are legal to use while driving. I don't think you are as engaged mentally with a 2 way - a bit like using your mobile on hands free - but even that effects your concentration, as does a 2 way...