Why isn't there somewhere for drivers to report other, dangerous road users?
Last week you published a letter from AP of Wakefield describing a driver's attempts to drive while texting and he took the car's number. I've seen similar things many times before, but always wondered why there was nowhere useful to report such behaviour to. Why doesn't the Department for Transport do something useful for road safety and set up a hotline where vehicles registrations can be logged against reports of dangerous behaviours? Repeat offenders (say three or more reports in a year from different sources) should be visited by police, warned about their behaviour and, if it continues, they should be made liable to court action followed by a compulsory driving test with the risk that their licence be removed.
Asked on 24 November 2012 by KP, Felixstowe
Answered by
Honest John
Because who is to say that the snitcher is telling the truth? And if this pillar of society photographs the transgressor while driving, then emails the photo to a snitcher site, then he, himself, will be doing something more dangerous than the alleged transgressor, as well as contravening the transgressor's human right not to be photographed.
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mobile phones
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