Must've been a page-turner... Woman caught on camera reading a BOOK at the wheel

Got to agree with crazy legs. The police need to reinvestigate this. I suggest a letter to the IPCC

Having been totally wiped out by a taxi only 30 seconds away for this exact point I'm glad someone else is keeping an eye on Drivers.

As in my case, and here, the police chose the best option for the Driver and not common sense.

Sorry but I see NO REASON at all for the police not to pursue prosecution. Do we know the end result of this?

The footage is quite credible and perfectly clear. If I filmed a bank robbery escape would the police show similar disinterest in the footage?

+1 for everything that 'hampstead bandit' says above.

If the police bothered to enforce this, we could clear the national debt inside of a year. But politically, its not an option. The war on the poor oppressed hard working motorist, stealth taxes and so on that the populist press would trot out.

And we end up further down the line where everyone thinks that they have an absolute right to drive...

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Except policing is so rare, that there isn't an actual deterrent of points and fines. So few get caught as to be irrelevant.

It's the threat of being caught which is the deterrent (or not) - the actual penalty almost doesn't matter.

Perhaps she was reading the highway code?

Just one more chapter to the bit about not reading a blooming book while driving

She said she was only reading with the handbrake on...that would explain why she was going so slow

This week I went out for a quick road ride before work and the final descent is off Hampstead into Swiss cottage, London.

Around 8.30am so lots of traffic and a long queue of cars going into Swiss cottage. Cars either moving forward 5mph or stationary. I am carefully overtaking the queue on the outside, and moving slowly I am keeping an eye on the drivers to make sure I can react if one decides to suddenly pull out or open a door.

Pretty much every driver I pass is using a handheld device either making a call or tapping on the screen, some on tablets (!) and one man holding a large book on his steering wheel whilst his car is moving forward.

I am talking several hundred cars on this one road. If the Police could be bothered to walk alongside on the pavement, perhaps filming for evidence, they could charge 100+ motorists and give these muppets a wake up call as its very obvious the motorists do this as normal behaviour, and probably every day during the week.

The worse thing about this, is that in her eyes she doesn't think she's done anything wrong. She accuses the cyclist of being aggressive towards her as an excuse to try and get out of it that plod falls for. She can't admit she's in the wrong because she doesn't think what she was doing was wrong, and that's the scary part!

She needs to be prosecuted and I feel the police also need to be retrained.

He need to ask her to park somewhere safe and then give her points and hand her a ticket. Even then I think that is a light punishment. Trying to use a 6 year old as some sort of defense is totally sickening and somehow she failed to be even remorseful about it.

Not only that she lies about him being aggressive. If I am judge I will send her to jail.

The woman claimed " he was aggressive, when she had her six year old child in the car"
How do these people think like that?

I have had similar shouted at me by car drivers who have endangered my child's life by forcing their car between the two of us while riding in close line astern fashion. Even when my child goes to the same school as their child who is being ferried less than a mile to school while we are cycling to school.

How can they hold such different views about words being such a threat to their child and 2 tonnes of uncontrolled metal threatening mine?

And not just potentially abusing the road, look at the way way she was holding up the traffic crawling then stopping with huge gaps.

Driving like that should attract breath testing as well as a 'due care and attention' summons.

What an entitled cow. I hope she drives into the back of a lorry.

Got to hand it to the cyclist for not losing his cool, or acting aggressively in the least. She might have been shaken up but that was the oh shit i have been caught factor. All the "he was being aggressive" shit is just poor damsel in distress don't arrest me codswollp. I don't think I could keep my cool, but I suppose he knows he is on camera.

Love it when she slams the bok shut when she realised he had her rumbled.

iv been hit twice bye a car 1 on his phone i am rirly thinking ov seling my bikes and stoping cycling the cops dpp just dont care and very rarly do a thing it just isunt safe any more as much as i love cycling i love being alive more!!!!!!!!!

My favourite incident from that stretch of road (about 150-200 yards further back) - a student cyclist came inches away from being wiped out by a left hook. In this case, his slow speed may well have stopped him from serious injury.

Stopped the driver for a quick chat, and he held up his mobile phone and in complete innocence, advised that he was "looking at the map for directions". Some people shouldn't be left alone with Tonka toys. Just gives them ideas.

It's carrange on the roads today, just because of morons like this lady.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/14/m40-section-closed-30-veh...

It really wish the police/CPS and more importantly the public in general would stop turning a blind eye to road deaths and start getting pissed off about. Its far to easy to get a driving licence and nearly impossible to loss it.

Good to see that the book is not dead. Maybe penalties for driving around without due care and attention should be elevated to the one's that exist for drink driving. Given the amount of people you see today on the road Whilst holding mobile phones, a couple of points on the licence and a fine are clearly no longer a deterrent. The Risk of losing your license should stop this growing trend of people thinking it is ok to use phones whilst driving.

Even pedestrians are fair game when it comes to allowing for errors in cars....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/taylor-mcdonnell-hairdresser-using-...

Stupid, stupid woman.

Words cannot describe how stupid this woman is. Not only is this a serious traffic violation she should be investigated by the social services for knowingly/deliberately endangering her Childs life.

Utterly indefensible behaviour from the driver and without a shred of understanding of the implications or remorse. To drive whilst distracted with your own child in the car makes this even more baffling.

When will the law start to take this behaviour seriously - a ban and automatic re-test for anyone caught using a mobile etc at the wheel is perhaps the only way some drivers will modify their behaviour.