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this is the thing though. Your average pillock who uses a mobile should be deterred from committing this offence merely by the risk of a fine and, the risk of losing their driving license (or for that matter being injured themselves in a traffic collision).

I would go so far as to say those who repeatedly commit such offences knowing the risks are potential career criminals/psychopaths – and as you are probably aware there are a lot of “successful” businessmen who fit into that category, particularly the more ruthless sales types who feel that picking up that call is more important than road safety..

the full 15 year sentence would have been better IMO. I suspect that after the initial impact the offender will become desensetised to seeing the photo (which he only has to show for 3 years).

This would only work if the offender genuinely feels remorse and lots of criminals don’t these days.

People get more than that in the USA for selling drugs even when no-one has got killed..

the law has only recently been changed though – its only been in recent weeks the black rats have been looking out for offenders. I think it should have been more points maybe, enough to give them a real risk of losing their license..

its like drink driving, loads of people did it until feds cracked down and many still risk it.

I don’t think a lot of them are as sheltered as people make them out to be; most of the pissed up violence which leads to real injuries and sometimes even manslaughter/murder comes from these types.

OK they rarely become serial killers or violent robbers, and fist-fights at work are rare as they are a career-limiting move – but the anger manifests itself in fights at sunday football, pissed up townie violence and domestic abuse. How many times have you opened up your local paper and seen a bunch of normal “suit” types up before the beak for ABH, GBH or manslaughter after a weekend’s “fun?”

Where I used to live the suits would regularly kick in a random homeless and piss on them after a weekends drinking, it actually took the CCTV operators and the feds to keep an eye on the street people to keep them safe

IMO there are loads of people about who are not “career criminals” only because they have a “legitimate” career, or can limit their agrression to a level below that which gets you arrested.

These days, the threshold at which people turn to violence or are prepared to risk hurting someone else to get their way has lowered a lot and it manifests itself on the roads as well.

Also there is a lot of pent up agression in these office types and it gets let out when they get into their cars.

Of course people don’t normally go out of their way to have collissions (they would damage their nice shiny cars) but in some areas there is definitely a kind of “brinkmanship” on the roads where you see people play with each others lives, and a lot of road rage.