Nationwide Cell Phone Ban?

[Aliantha]

Classic case of why some people should never touch a phone when they're driving:

Driving home yesterday, we were in a 110km/hour zone, and pulled into the passing lane to go around a truck. As I came along side, there was a car in front doing less than 100km's (in the passing lane remember). I cruised for a couple of minutes, and these were the things I noticed.

several small children in the back jumping about although properly seatbelted. Someone in the passenger seat (presumably mother to the rugrats). The driver of the car was a woman probably in her 60's. During this time she not only answered her phone after rummaging around for it in her bag, she then passed it around the car, took her eyes off the road for several long periods to look into the back (at which point I started flashing my lights at her) and was swerving all over the lane (remember she's beside a very large truck).

Eventually she moved out of the lane and I cruised past with my carload of kids who all started whooping as we went past when the woman driving gave me the finger! What a stupid old cow is all I could say to the kids.

She should have been booked for any number of offenses, the least of which was talking on the phone while driving imo.