Why Can't Drivers Resist Using Their Phones?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38711931
This is the newest and most deadly traffic offence. Time to start banning for first offence?

[gulliver1]

Let's face it ,driving and using a phone hands free or not , is very very dangerous, so many people have been injured and killed whilst doing so.
Any one caught doing this should have their licence taken away for life .

[ToraToraTora]

yes I think you are correct gulliver the seriousness of the situation is currently underestimated.

[EDDIE51]

Whiskeryron, one big problem with your approach is that many people do not own the car they are driving. You can't seize or destroy a leased car . company car, car share car, rented car, borrowed car or for that matter a stolen car because the person driving it used a mobile phone.
I fully agree with the principle of not using a mobile phone when driving but the answer is to treat it in the same way drink driving is, an immediate 1 year ban from driving for the first offence.
I have been hit head on by a 'school run Mum' who was on the phone to tell them she was going to be late to pick up her child. She drove straight into me on my side of the road!