The mobile menace

I read Afshan Aziz’s report with interest (“Cell phone use on the road is a menace, Oct. 22). This was about the risks of cell phone use during driving a car, which is indeed a menace. She has emphasized on a number of valid points in her writing. There is no doubt that the cell phone use has become one of the major reasons of the road traffic accidents.
Instead of leaving everything to the traffic police, people should act with responsibility and cooperate for trouble-free traffic flow. It is not good and advisable to use phone while driving a car, it is full of risk for the driver and passengers accompanying him along with other passerby vehicles and the pedestrians as well. It is so common these days and a lot of people talking on hand-held phones and they usually go out of the road tracks due to lack of concentration, it is natural to lose concentration while talking on phone during a ride which will cause accidents and problems on the road, it would affect adversely the traffic flow on the road and would cause inconvenience for many. It is dangerous to talk or text on cell phones while driving. Yet this behavior continues to be a source of injuries and road traffic accidents. Especially the new young generation is involved in phone related accidents as they have some sort of addiction to use the phone. The awareness campaigns against distracted driving, might be working, however more needs to be done to quell this behavior, drivers can prevent accidents by keeping their phones away or by giving them to the accompanying passengers, in case of a phone call, to avoid accidents. — Zakaria Sultan, Riyadh