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a minor accident will tell you it was due to a lack of concentration on one or both parties sides.
I also understand that there is a growing trend to be available to your family, friends, and work colleagues. Most people now can't be without the use of their mobiles while they drive. Their cars become mobile offices, equipped with the latest satellite navigation, mobiles and other devices to detect speed cameras.

Most people I know can only think in quiet and peaceful surroundings so being in a car concentrating on busy roads, or long dull highways, traffic will put most drivers under a varying degree of stress.

If you believe that people do not take the responsibility of driving a car safely, as seriously as they should, then you will also agree that banning distractions like cell phones while driving is the correct thing to do.

The actual problem isn't the mobile phone. Nope, that is just another gadget that seems to have taken the world by storm because it is a great communication tool. You cant blame it for being so dam desirable. The actual problem, and I am shamed to admit it is very simple, it is you and me, the drivers behind the wheel who should at all times keep concentrating on driving, and safety of themselves and others. We lack the discipline required to know when to just let the answer machine get it.

We don't do that enough though, because as soon as we hear our latest downloaded ring tone vibrating in our pockets, we spend every ounce of our concentration trying to answer it before they ring off. Taking your mind of the road, even for that split second, could be the last thing you do.

Extensive research in Britain on the rise of fatalities on our roads have revealed a worrying trend in that the main cause, even in the mildest road accident, was caused by the lack of concentration of the person behind the wheel, and 9 times out of ten the reason for their distraction was a mobile phone.

I believe that we have a higher speed limit in the England than in most countries, and even that is pushed to its limits. So seventy (70) miles an hour which is our national speed limit, is actually more like eighty (80) on the motorways in reality. Going that fast and having to answer an unexpected call is like trying to do your shoe laces up, while running the marathon.

It just might be safer to stop.

There were many crashes on our narrow roads put forward as examples and reasons why we should ban the cell/mobile phone while driving. One of the worst

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