Mobile Phones Seized After Road Accidents
occy
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Police could seize mobile phones after road accidents to see if that was a cause of the accident if the driver was texting or on the phone.
Obviously the technology on phones now could see people being prosecuted even if they weren't on the mobile as likes of Twitter and Facebook can still be running.
I think this is a brilliant idea as time and time again I see so many idiots still driving using a phone. Even the handsfree kits can cause car accidents, as your concentrating on the conversation than the road.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706182/Police-seize-mobiles-EVERY-car-crash-Crackdown-calls-texting-wheel-bid-cut-deaths-distracted-drivers.html
Obviously the technology on phones now could see people being prosecuted even if they weren't on the mobile as likes of Twitter and Facebook can still be running.
I think this is a brilliant idea as time and time again I see so many idiots still driving using a phone. Even the handsfree kits can cause car accidents, as your concentrating on the conversation than the road.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706182/Police-seize-mobiles-EVERY-car-crash-Crackdown-calls-texting-wheel-bid-cut-deaths-distracted-drivers.html
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What they should do is clone a phone's memory (or a laptop's hard drive) within a day and return it to you.
The alternative is you are deprived of the items for months or even forever.
They could also seize passengers to see if they have been distracting you, or check to see what Spandau Ballet song you were singing along to on Absolute 80's at the moment of impact.
I was under the impression the police already checked your phone if they suspected you may have been on it at the time.
Stupid idea to allow the police to seize phones based on nothing.
Although I did read somewhere once that there was some kind of plug-in iPhone hacking device made available to law enforcement which could bypass the security settings.
although, as a pedestrian waiting to cross the road, I can pretty much guarantee to see at least one driver on their phone in the short time I'm waiting
maybe the protesters aren't as inocent as they'd like others to believe
Yes. I was in a car accident a few years ago and the police asked for my work mobile phone, even though it was in my briefcase on the passenger seat all along. Got the phone back roughly three weeks later when they concluded the investigation.
Sensitive data shouldn't be on a phone. It'd be idiotic if s/he doesn't take precautions to encrypt it when it does need to be on the phone.
Um...losing access to an important communication device? Having information compromised considering the reputation of public sector and data protection?
The 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' bollocks is getting tiresome.
All they need to do is check it there and then, not seize it take it away for months.
Secondly, as a driver waiting for pedestrians to cross the road, I can pretty much guarantee to see at least one on their phone, not concentrating on their surroundings, in the short time I'm waiting. Works both ways
Phone police.
Phone family to let them know you're alright.
Get fined and disqualified for being on phone when you got slammed into.
http://www.acpo.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/Reports-of-police-seizing-mobile-phones-after-every-road-traffic-collision-are-inaccurate-2e8.aspx
Police should also establish whether driver / pedestrian had earphones in at the time of any accident. Stupid jogger ran out in front of me the other week because she had earphones in. Had she not been listening to music she would have heard the engine - as it was she didn't even look over her shoulder to see if there was traffic. I see quite a lot of drivers with earphones in and I think it insulates you and makes you less aware of what's going on around you.
Are we supposed to replace it and get a new number?
Should you not be concentrating on your own driving rather than straining to see what somebody else is doing in their car?
Thanks for that.
I remember when the breathalyser was brought in and the sustained campaign that was mounted against it. All sorts of scare stories were published. Today no one would object to them, but at the time it was "I'm a fee man, I do not consent to the police taking my breath", and "they will be taking your children because then can cause you to lose control". you have to laugh at the idiots who said that.
I have already been flagged down after pulling out of a petrol station, the police were fine , she told me what she though I had done, I hadn't, she asked to look at my phone I didn't have an issue, I was on my way in a couple of minutes.
Another time I was caught, got a fine.
If this idea takes hold it's going to be stop & search all over,---it's going to get abused and a phone could be taken away for weeks,--months on end, even if you are the innocent party.
And what would taking the phone away prove in most circumstances, how will it prove the time of the accident and someone was using a phone at that moment.
There are other distractions, like kids or you take a call, that winds you up so much, call ends, 5 minutes later, you're in an accident.
The only way I could see such a method working is if a law was passed that stated,---all drivers must have their phones switched off when driving but I bet there is flaws in this idea to.
Plenty of people survived ok back in the day when mobile phones didn't exist, I'm sure you'll be fine, why not use your home phone or a public phone if you're really desperate. Theres more to life than Twatter and Facebook as well.
And to the comment about children distracting you, well, children are meant to be kept UNDER CONTROL in a moving vehicle.
I'm sick of seeing idiots that still persist in using theirs when driving.