WITH the new increase of both fines and penalty points on drivers using their mobile phones while at the wheel, I’ve noticed more and more vehicles coming to a standstill before drivers answer their phones.

In itself it is a commendable action, but unfortunately some people just pull up at the side of the road completely oblivious to things happening around them. No spatial awareness.

Just the other day, a lady stopped her car to answer her phone in Wigginton Road on a long but narrow straight section of road and inadvertently created a tailback of vehicles having to manoeuvre past her.

So, if you have to answer your phone at the wheel, consider other road users when you stop and be spatially aware.

D M Deamer, Penley’s Grove Street, Monkgate, York