Driving distractions

Dashboard dining a major culprit

Sir, – A contributor from a motorcycle association outlined on the radio a few days ago the activities of car drivers.

Using laptops, phones, drinking beverages, eating generally, putting on make-up, grooming hair, reading newspapers and others I cannot remember.

Being on a bike, he can see clearly into cars.

I know of a driver who used to eat a bowl of cornflakes on the way to work on a country road.

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I wonder why we don’t have many more road traffic disasters, because that is what they are. – Yours, etc,

ALEC QUINN,

Caherdavin Heights,

Limerick.