So from Tuesday this week a chat on your mobile while driving may cost £60 in fines and three points. Really, can you argue against that?
There is always hands free although I often wonder if people think you are just talking to yourself. Or worse still, singing.
Everyone knows the only sanctioned use of a spare hand while driving is nose picking.
Actually there are a couple of other distractions that worry me; radios with controls so small and far away they might as well be in another galaxy. And smoking.
If being harangued by the sales director on your Nokia is dangerous how much more dangerous is driving along with a fire in your mouth?
My grandfather was a great one for proving this point by regularly dropping his ciggy in his lap or knocking the tip off on the steering wheel and into his best pullover.
Have you ever seen someone drive a car while doing the Gay Gordons and playing an imaginary banjo?
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