This has nothing to do with idiots and their mobile phones as it precedes them by about 3 decades. I stopped a pedestrian (zebra crossing in the UK) crossing for a bloke standing there waiting on a busy main road, coppers in their dark blue/black Cortina stopped the other side, bloke steps onto crossing and walks forward and then BANG! Cops car gets hit up the arse by another car and goes shooting across the crossing just missing the pedestrian.
It was so funny, he stopped and looked right over his shoulder, then left over his shoulder, didn't even smile, just shook his head and kept walking. Driver of the offending vehicle sat there with his head resting on his hands on the wheel not daring to look up as 4 cops climbed out of their car.
It was like a skit from a comedy program.
They didn't even want me as a witness. :-)
AlanH.