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Driver eating cereal.pngVideo: woman caught eating a bowl of cereal while driving
A woman has been caught on helmet camera eating a bowl of cereal while driving.
Footage of the cereal offender, who was caught spoon handed near Hampton Court, was uploaded yesterday by cyclist, David Williams, who spotted the woman mid-breakfast as he turned right across a queue of cars.
After passing behind the red Land Rover Discovery, which was waiting behind a bus and a car at a junction, he appears to do a double take and rides around to the passenger's side to knock on the window and express his disapproval.
He says: "Put that down, I'm going to the police. I've got your number."
"Absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous, you're bloody dangerous."
The woman, who was holding the cereal bowl in the left hand and steering with the right, appears nonplussed, gestures in front of her at the traffic and carries on eating as she pulls away again.
Range Rover (LF13 XEW) driver eating a bowl of cereal, Hampton Court: http://t.co/zoiHV30qDC via @YouTube
— David H Williams (@Bigdai100) June 16, 2015
He then turns to a woman in the car behind the Land Rover in the queue to say: "She's eating a bowl of cereal."
The woman says: "While she's driving?"
"Yeah," he replies.
Mr Williams told the Surrey Comet “You can see that her car is moving from a long way back and just as I pull alongside her she’s put some food in her mouth.
“She just carries on driving.
“We’ve all eaten mars bars or something, or had a drink of coke, but nothing like this.
“I mean, who takes a bowl of cereal into the car?
“I regularly see dangerous driving but I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Surrey Police have messaged Mr Williams to say an officer will be in touch for the footage and to identify the woman.
A Surrey Police spokeswoman said: "Police will be looking in to it a lot more. Surrey Road Cops will also tweet back to the poster with something of that affect so people can see police will look into it."
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade’s experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with road.cc, Laura has also written for national and specialist titles of all stripes. One part of the popular Streets Ahead podcast, she sometimes appears as a talking head on TV and radio, and in real life at conferences and festivals. She is also the author of Potholes and Pavements: a Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network.
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There's a pretty easy way to ensure it doesn't happen to you.
Really? Haven't we established this isn't necessarily illegal? So by that standard I would be liable to anybody filming me and publishing what they thought was ethically unsound? Perhaps they would film me cheating on a girlfriend, not tipping enough in a restaurant, cheating in a game of Monopoly. Or even if we assume it has to be illegal they might film me smoking weed, jumping a red light on my bike, accepting cash for a small job. And then they publish it on YouTube with the self righteousness of "he shouldn't have been doing that".
I really can't imagine many people would endorse such a society, and yet so many of the comments on this video support what the cyclist has done. Doesn't that suggest there's a bias at work here?
Yes, except that ship has long sailed - CCTV everywhere. If you do something dodgy in a public place (or even just something embarrassing) there's a chance its going to be seen by a lot of people. That's just how it is now. The rest of us have to put up with it, why should motorists doing dangerous things be spared?
Personally if it had been up to me I'd have blurred out the face and licence plate on the grounds that its more about showing how bad distracted driving has gotten than about the individual. But I don't see what's so wrong about letting the police have the footage.
A polite word?
You dont live around here do you? I live a few hundred meters away from this incident and the whole HC junctions are utter chaos. There are cars hammering through the HC station car park to by-pass the red lights, traffic queues from the M3 or Esher that can go on for miles. Crossing with kids and a dog on your own is taking your familys life in your hands...
Not far from here today I got shouted at because I dared to try and cross a road, and a speeding car made me run for my life. He then came back to have a go at me. All this was 100m from two schools...
As I always say, love the area but the traffic is a bitch....
You know what bugs the tits out of me is that when you see clips like this you end up with the inevitable "Vigilante" slurs. Yet see the same clips from motorists and its never mentioned. Why is that?
I did read my comment back, and I carefully used the words 'specifically affect'.
I don't mind you disagreeing with me, and I can see that it's fair enough to have a different opinion. However, it should be possible for you to disagree without sounding so angry, and descending into abuse.
I'm not in favour of distracted drivers, and I believe the police should be much more active in catching people. My doubts are about whether head cams should be used by private individuals to act as the police by seeking out and confronting bad driving behaviour.
To be fair, the top rated comments on the Daily Mail website are either lambasting this woman or making cereal jokes. It's restored a tiny bit of my faith in humanity.
Well I have checked the Daily Mail website and the general opinion is its fine, it's the cyclists fault for being angry and having a helmet cam. So what the big issue? Oh apparently we are also jealous of her car too, I assume that's because we can only afford a bike.
I think LBC won the contest for nuttiest comment.
I'm considering changing my username to "shaved legged shouting finger"
I had the misfortune to listen to LBC this morning on the drive in (yes I drive, fuck all that risky cycling
) The nuttiest comment probably prompted the presenter, Nick Ferrari into saying that he couldn't understand why the cyclist "dobbed her to Surrey police, rather than just verbally chastising her".
I'm sure if Nick got out on a bike more he'd experience first hand the dangers of sharing the road with morons displaying a complete disregard for cyclists, but being a fat lardy arse cnut, he was completely unable to draw the parallel between the road murder/death/kills statistics and the 'I didn't see him/her' defence routinely rolled out in the witness box.
[Edited 2 minutes later when I realised Mr Cole's comment was 12 hours old]
To be fair, quite a lot of our fellow cyclists on the road.cc Facebook post come to the same conclusion.
Apparently it is all fine because she is stationary.
I assume she must have been stationary all the way from home and will remain stationary till she gets to work
OH and cyclists eat on the move so she should be able to as well. Because chomping down an energy bar with one hand is exactly the same as balancing a bowl full of milk whilst trying to operate a two and a half ton vehicle.
But what cereal was it?
She's clearly decided to do this before getting into the vehicle, that's the worrying thing. It's not a lapse of concentration, an accident or something understandable.
It's not like normal people keep milk, cereal, a bowl and spoon near the driver's seat!
I do. It is a camper van though.
Exactly. Unless she has a mini-fridge in there she has presumably left the house carrying a bowl of cereal, juggled it as she got in the car, balanced it on her knees as she backed the car out her drive and then driven down the road being careful not to spill it.
And at no point in that process has she thought "Hang on a minute.. this is a f**king stupid idea"
If she has to eat in the car then why not at least pick up a bit of toast or something you can eat with one hand without causing much distraction?
If you film people in the street without permission then you shouldn't be surprised when you get a frosties reception.
Thank you very much, I'm here all week.
Cereaously though. WTF!
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I doubt the police will treat this with any kind of seriousness. I expect she'll just receive a "warning".
When the same thing happened in Edinburgh the guy was charged.
Though he was doing 35mph at the time he was filmed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-25087651
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/video-anger-as-driv...
love the way she's didn't even put it down despite being summoned on it. Some people can't even ever admit they are in the wrong too, never mind doing the thing in the first place. I said to some guy stop letting his dog **** on a path and he went ballistic, wouldn't mind i wasn't haven't a go at him personally, which he construed, it's just not a nice thing to do.
Not much chance of changing her cereal for porridge, pity!
Amaizeing. Wheatever next?
LF13 XEW?
Obviously a cereal offender!
She can say 'Cheerios' to her licence
*effect. Some spokesperson.
I agree it's a daft thing to do. She probably thinks, 'if I'm just going to be sitting there not moving, I can finish my cereal,' but it's still a distraction when you have to drive forwards.
I'm not sure about this use of the camera. I can see why you'd use one to defend your position if you're cut up or knocked off or abused. When you extend it to actively going after other road users doing stupid things which don't specifically affect you, I don't know if it's a good idea.
Yes - how could a 4x4 being driven by somebody eating a bowl of cereal on his morning commute possibly effect him?
Going by your logic, her behaviour should be ignored and she'll carry on driving whilst eating cereal?
I'm glad for the proliferation of helmet cameras - I think in the long term it'll be the biggest deterrent against bullshit behaviour on the roads.
Yeah, fuck it, let's wait until she hits a kid or a cyclist...
Unfortunately there's the danger that (Daily Mail reading) motorists will hate us even more if they think that cyclists have all become self-appointed vigilantes out to 'get' them by spying with their little cameras.
They can hate me all they like, so long as they drive properly.
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