Danger driving in focus for students (From York Press)

By my guess, at least 25% of young drivers going from and to York College are on their mobile phones while driving - many of them sending texts. Hopefully something will be done about it.

Recently whilst being checked late night in Norton Malton by police to determine the ownership of the car trailer I was towing, legally mine, and being breathalysed which was probably the real reason for the stop anyway (Have no quarrel with that) The local boy/girl racers where doing their thing. On asking the officer why nothing was being done to curb these antisocial louts. He could not give me proper answer other than all that could be done was being done with very little results. In a lot of cases he said hands where tied but, laughing, would appreciate any suggestions. Don't suppose that Norton & Malton are unique regarding this problem. How the following cannot be curbed by the law beats me. Racing around town, badly adjusted headlights, in many cases only one, glaring, illegal use of fog lights noisy exhausts, speeding, cutting corners,over the top or wrong way around mini roundabouts, doughnuts in the local car parks, following tight on the bumper,flashing lights blowing horn, of drivers obeying local speed limits, these are the times I wish I had an old car or in the lorry, With the recent introduction of the 20mph zone in Norton it is not unusual to be flashed & pipped at then overtaken by car with window open and fingered abuse from the passenger/s.The hard hitting event mentioned in the report will fall on deaf ears. "You can't educate pork". Hard hitting in my book means, hefty fines, a crushed car or two until the lesson is learned. Reports to insurance companies re the undisclosed modifications & the abuse of using the car tagged onto mummy/daddys insurance. To the Fuddy Duddys that have nothing better than criticise grammar & spelling, I am not a Writer just a frowned upon truck driver with 46 years experience with 4 minor driving conviction,

Students at york college are dangerous they use tadcaster road as their own personal race track, from 8am thru to 6pm they can be seen racing about in cars and peds its about time york police stamped this out with a big crusher
but alass this will not happen but if I drove my car and a brake light went out I'd get a ticket without doubt.
some one needs to get their priorities sorted out

Happy Chappie wrote:
Recently whilst being checked late night in Norton Malton by police to determine the ownership of the car trailer I was towing, legally mine, and being breathalysed which was probably the real reason for the stop anyway (Have no quarrel with that) The local boy/girl racers where doing their thing. On asking the officer why nothing was being done to curb these antisocial louts. He could not give me proper answer other than all that could be done was being done with very little results. In a lot of cases he said hands where tied but, laughing, would appreciate any suggestions. Don't suppose that Norton & Malton are unique regarding this problem. How the following cannot be curbed by the law beats me. Racing around town, badly adjusted headlights, in many cases only one, glaring, illegal use of fog lights noisy exhausts, speeding, cutting corners,over the top or wrong way around mini roundabouts, doughnuts in the local car parks, following tight on the bumper,flashing lights blowing horn, of drivers obeying local speed limits, these are the times I wish I had an old car or in the lorry, With the recent introduction of the 20mph zone in Norton it is not unusual to be flashed & pipped at then overtaken by car with window open and fingered abuse from the passenger/s.The hard hitting event mentioned in the report will fall on deaf ears. "You can't educate pork". Hard hitting in my book means, hefty fines, a crushed car or two until the lesson is learned. Reports to insurance companies re the undisclosed modifications & the abuse of using the car tagged onto mummy/daddys insurance. To the Fuddy Duddys that have nothing better than criticise grammar & spelling, I am not a Writer just a frowned upon truck driver with 46 years experience with 4 minor driving conviction,

you try giving away your full years saving's to insurance for a clapped out motor and see if you feel the need to inhance them. police obviously know the real criminal's are hidden not on show so rightly so pull people like you hiding away in your little cabbin

Trustme....... Must be one of them. Just proves my point "YOU CAN'T EDUCATE PORK"

Elephant wrote:
By my guess, at least 25% of young drivers going from and to York College are on their mobile phones while driving - many of them sending texts. Hopefully something will be done about it.

But that means that you GUESS that 75% don't.......doesn't sound so bad now does it.

Most people I've seen using mobiles are middle aged business people and quite a few van drivers (not HGV)...

The only real issue I have with these initiatives ....will the % of young people that would benefit from this actually turn up...I doubt it.....those that will are probably pretty sensible drivers.

I believe that an effective way of stopping such driving would be that when a "racer" is caught/stopped MAKE them attend a mortuary and or head injuries unit....sharp tactics.....and for most would be a very haunting harrowing experience.

Trustmee... I have not got an issue with the lads/lasses enhancing their cars, in fact just opposite, to give credit where credits due have been refurbed to really good standard and really look good.my argument is that some of these alterations ie lowered suspension, alloy wheel, souped up engines etc have to be declared when insuring. Because of the added premium these are not alway declared thus making the insurance null and void in the event of an accident leaving the victim to foot the bill. With increases to his insurance through no fault of his own.