Using Your Mobile Phone When Topping Up With Oil

Saturday, 26. September 2009

 Now here’s an interesting piece of information (not that all I provide isn’t interesting), but have you ever been on the forecourt of a fuel station and the damned mobile has gone off which you have then sneakily answered or checked out the text message, believing to be out of vision of the person on the till? Then been screamed at through the pump loudspeaker for putting everyone’s life at risk and dying of embarrassment in the process. Yep, we’ve all been there. Well Texaco have launched Read more »

Is Just Holding A Mobile Phone Whilst Driving Illegal?

Tuesday, 2. December 2008

Most of us are aware that talking on a hand held mobile phone whilst driving is illegal as is sending text messages but a district judge ruling in a recent case took the issue of using a mobile phone whilst driving one step further when a driver was caught switching off the alarm on his phone. The judge ruled that the act of switching off the alarm on the phone constituted Read more »