Third of pedestrians at risk of death due to mobile phones

[william-1]

A bus I was on the other day nearly killed a pedestrian who walked across the traffic lights that were Red for the pedestrians how the driver missed her I will never know but it shook us up in the bus & the pedestrian was totally oblivious as she was looking at her eye phone with ear plugs in effectively blind & deaf to the surroundings,

Seven out of ten young adults aged up to 24 admit using their mobile phones while walking compared to just three in 10 of those aged 55 and over.

As a consequence over a quarter of motorists have had to swerve, slam on their brakes or sound their horns to avoid mowing them down.

One in 12 motorists admit that they have actually knocked into a distracted pedestrian.

The survey by Confused.com comes as the numbers of pedestrians killed has increased by three per cent year on year and last year there were 24,033 reported pedestrian casualties on UK roads. This marks an increase of 721.

A third of pedestrians too busy on their phones to look for traffic

 

[Channel Hopper]

Darwinism will soon weed them out.

 

[scopus]

I see it all the time....They can't leave these toys alone for a minute........If you took them off them their would be some serious dummy throwing!

 

[jeallen01]

Can't remember how MANY times I have had to use the air-horn (non-OEM on the Skoda!) to "wake up" phone-infatuated pedestrians to wake the F**K up and look around them - and then there were all the instances of pedestrians without phones who blithly step off pavements without first looking around them.

If I "had my way" anybody walking on (or biking!) , or off (!), pavements would be legally required to have 3rd party insurance to protect us motorists against injury claims or damage caused by their crass stupidity

And, TBH, car-drivers are not innocent either - last week I saw the female half of a young couple put their young son into the back seat of their car, but, instead of making sure he was securely strapped in, all the time she concentrated on the phone in her hand, and - the last I saw - the kid was leaning over her shoulder and so I doubt if he ever did strap himself in!

 

[Analoguesat]

Let them die - anyone who cant leave their phone alone for an hour shouldnt be allowed to breed

 

[jeallen01]

A/S

Unfortunately for us car drivers, the law is often "on the side" of the stupid injured/dead pedestrians who were the actual causes of the accidents which caused their woes, and the situation just got worse with the advent of the "smart phone"!

 

[Analoguesat]

I know

I work in one of the local high schools. I find it incredibly depressing that the youngsters cant bear to be parted form their phones for more than a few minutes. Ive made serious suggestions that every teacher should have a metal wastebin with a lid in their room & all phones MUST be dropped into them at the start of every lesson & only returned at the end!

(Metal = Faraday Shield so the damn things cant ring mid class)

 

[jeallen01]

A/S

Sounds like your school (and many others!) needs phone signal jammers.

 

[Lazarus]

I know

I work in one of the local high schools. I find it incredibly depressing that the youngsters cant bear to be parted form their phones for more than a few minutes. Ive made serious suggestions that every teacher should have a metal wastebin with a lid in their room & all phones MUST be dropped into them at the start of every lesson & only returned at the end!

(Metal = Faraday Shield so the damn things cant ring mid class)

Insist they charge their phones during swimming lessons.

Topical!

 

[jeallen01]

Insist they charge their phones during swimming lessons.
Topical!

Might not work with some phones that are nominally "waterproof" - OTOH , the owners might suffer the same "consequences" as the guy who was charging his iPhone with it on his chest whilst having a bath (another "cretin"!).