Well yet another one got to me today.
You do take your life in your hands here at times as a very high percentage of drivers quite happily use their mobile / cell phones while driving. This is another one of those wonderful things where EU laws are enacted but only the Brits are dumb enough to enforce the law.
While Belgian law "prohibits the use of a cell phone while driving. Phone can be used when the vehicle is not mobile and not in traffic" , it is just plain not enforced around Brussels. Today's little exercise was to guess if the driver of an 18 wheeler truck would drop the phone he was using so as to have two hands to get his truck around the roundabout (Traffic Circle). The thing that exasperated me was he was STILL on the phone after turning the truck in its side and climbing out the window.
Good (ish) news is the bus drivers do not do this but they all have hands free and are still constantly on the phone or chatting with their friends who stand next to them and chat.
No wonder this place has a death rate per Km that is twice that of the UK.
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they need to be talking on the phone when they drive in case they have an accident and need to call for help...
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