Another rant about the Smart car

Be prepared for a full-on article from me later about the Council’s White Vulture Smart Car following yesterday’s Medway Messenger article.

In the mean time, allow me to ponder this: do the drivers really think that they are so far above the law that they can drive the Vulture whilst talking on a mobile phone?

Because that is exactly what the driver was doing when he drove past me just now.

Update 28/01/09 @ 12:55

The whole incident happened just after I had picked the girlfriend up.

I had just passed the Black Lion, turned towards the High Street and was signalling to turn into Marlborough Road.

In conversation, I stopped dead the second I saw what was coming in the other direction. The Girlfriend soon realised why – after all, most people know my feelings on the matter.

When it passed, however, I realised exactly what the driver was doing.

By this time I had started yet another rant about the Vulture and was so angered in the heat of the moment that I couldn’t help myself.

I exclaimed (rather loudly) “and he’s talking on his f**king mobile phone”, perhaps frightening the Girlfriend a wee bit.

In hindsight, I cannot be sure whether the driver was male of female, but I know what I am sure of.

They were breaking the law in driving whilst using a mobile phone!

I’m beginning to feel less sympathy for the drivers who are almost always at the receiving end of the abuse for the Vulture.