Lorry pushing car video

[hyperD]

Actually, if look closely, the tanker was totally empty, so there's an awful lot less momentum to conserve than you might suppose.

Indeed sir, you are correct if the road tanker is empty, which I assume you deduced before you wrote your post (by using your infamous Threaded Time Machine™ to actually witness the driver picking up the empty tanker payload during the start of his shift) rather than obfuscate the rest of the board with verbal misdirects.

Threaded, as always, I embrace your intellectual colossus and the fact that you are the only person to respond to the derivative of the Navier–Stokes equation is an honour and also a timely reminder of how technically dehydrated the rest of the board are, so you and I can once again relish in our Heaviside step function smugness.

[DaveB]

Indeed sir, you are correct if the road tanker is empty, which I assume you deduced before you wrote your post (by using your infamous Threaded Time Machine™ to actually witness the driver picking up the empty tanker payload during the start of his shift) rather than obfuscate the rest of the board with verbal misdirects.

Threaded, as always, I embrace your intellectual colossus and the fact that you are the only person to respond to the derivative of the Navier–Stokes equation is an honour and also a timely reminder of how technically dehydrated the rest of the board are, so you and I can once again relish in our Heaviside step function smugness.

In this case he's probably right, if you watch the video the first pair of wheels on the trailer are raised. This is done to save fuel when towing an empty tank that doesn't need the support of all three axles to take it's weight.

[ctdctd]

Properly reported here

[cojak]

[NotAllThere]

The scene was filmed on a mobile phone by another motorist

who was later prosecuted for using a mobile phone while driving.

[Paddy]

who was later prosecuted for using a mobile phone while driving.

It is not an offence per say to use a mobile phone while driving. You have to make a call for the offence to take place. There are legal precedents for this.

[DaveB]

It is not an offence per say to use a mobile phone while driving. You have to make a call for the offence to take place. There are legal precedents for this.

Not quite, you have to have made or answered a call or performed any other interaction with the device in question. This includes looking up numbers, reading or sending a text or email, surfing the web or performing any other "interactive communication function" as defined in the regulations.

So no, simply holding it in your hand and not doing anything with it is not an offence in this context, but you could still be done for failing to have proper control of the vehicle under other legislation ( I can't be arsed to cite it all ). The same applies to using a hands free set.

[Paddy]

QUOTE=DaveB;1103382]Not quite, you have to have made or answered a call or performed any other interaction with the device in question. This includes looking up numbers, reading or sending a text or email, surfing the web or performing any other "interactive communication function" as defined in the regulations.

So no, simply holding it in your hand and not doing anything with it is not an offence in this context, but you could still be done for failing to have proper control of the vehicle under other legislation ( I can't be arsed to cite it all ). The same applies to using a hands free set.[/QUOTE]

Good old Nick Freeman


COMEDIAN Jimmy Carr today walked free from court after he was cleared of using a mobile phone while driving, his solicitor said.

Celebrity lawyer Nick Freeman argued that Carr had used the dictation setting of his Iphone to record a joke as he drove.

[DaveB]

Good old Nick Freeman

Nick is very good at picking up on alternative interpertations of the wording of the law, in this case he has made a plausable argument and the Magistrate bought it. Personally I think the Magistrate got it wrong. In front of a different magistrate he may not have got away with it.

Had they done him for not being in full control of the vehicle or driving without due care and attention they may have got a different result.

[dang65]

It is not an offence per say to use a mobile phone while driving.

It is an offence per se to write "per se" as "per say" though.