Clarkson using mobile while driving ..

[Mk2Jo]

news story .....

 

Police are examining a photograph apparently showing Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson using a mobile phone while driving.

 

Adam Blake, 22, and Hayley Byford, 21, claim they photographed Clarkson on the phone as he did 70mph in a rare, 1970s 6.3l left-hand drive V8 600 Grosser Mercedes on the M40 in Oxfordshire.

 

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: "We have been handed the photograph and we will be looking at it with a view to a possible prosecution. If we have got evidence we think could be supported in court, we will take action."

 

The photograph was given to police by the Daily Mirror newspaper, which was initially sent it by Mr Blake and Miss Byford.

 

Mr Blake told the newspaper on Tuesday: "We could not believe that we'd caught him out. My girlfriend saw he was on his mobile. She grabbed hers and took a picture of him."

 

The newspaper claimed it later confronted Clarkson at his Chipping Norton home where he first denied being in the car and, on seeing the picture, said: "Er, that isn't a phone." Clarkson then reportedly said: "Look, I write a column for another newspaper. I'm not allowed to talk you."

 

Drivers caught using mobiles at the wheel face three points on their licence and a £60 fine.

 

A spokeswoman for the BBC's Top Gear programme said this was not a BBC matter and therefore offered no comment.

 

Superintendent Mick Doyle, head of roads policing for Thames Valley Police, said: "We know that using a mobile phone whilst driving is extremely dangerous.

 

"It has the same effect on a person as being just over the legal limit for drink driving. To use a mobile phone whilst driving at any time is dangerous and at a high speed on the motorway it is simply stupid

[Mrs O/H/C]

HAVING MET J.C ...IN MY OPINION HE ACTED LIKE HE WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE REST OF THE HUMAN RACE,SO IF HE IS AT FAULT WITH THIS I HOPE HE GETS THE TREATMENT THAT WE WOULD ALL GET!

[antz]

yes he did wrong but to fair....sad bastards for reporting him..dont they have a life? ...i see white van men on their phone all the tiem but i dont grab mine and take a picture to report to the police.

 

And its only a big story cos its JC. If i did it i wouldnt get a mention in the local paper (and they have jack shit to write about!)....its all a load of hype.

 

if hes done wrong, he must accept the point, pay the fine. job done...why all the hype?

[FredTransit]

yes he did wrong but to fair....sad bastards for reporting him..dont they have a life? ...i see white van men on their phone all the tiem but i dont grab mine and take a picture to report to the police.

 

And its only a big story cos its JC. If i did it i wouldnt get a mention in the local paper (and they have jack shit to write about!)....its all a load of hype.

 

if hes done wrong, he must accept the point, pay the fine. job done...why all the hype?

 

Couldn't agree more. I have even seen BUS DRVERS on the phone at the wheel with a full compliment of passengers (OK in London that's about 5) and nobody gives a monkey's!

[Cookie]

Surely there is somethhing more constructive the police could be doing with their time, and the saddo who got all excited about managing to get a picture of him get a life

[caprinerd]

do the crime do the time

[Toby]

Should give the Hamster some ammo next series!

[escortmad79]

yes he did wrong but to fair....sad bastards for reporting him..dont they have a life?

They probably sold the picture to the papers so would've done it for financial gain!

 

I once saw a driving instructor driving his car whilst talking on his mobile phone! That's a good example for others isn't it!!

[X-pack-Glyn]

I think thats a bit hard on Clarkson...

 

Just think for a moment of all the hard work he puts in giving highly detailed reports and test drives on all the cars most of us will never afford.

[5hane]

Just think for a moment of all the hard work he puts in giving highly detailed reports and test drives on all the cars most of us will never afford.

 

^

 

it isnt fair though,

[lotusless]

thousands of people do it every single day + coz its him

they took a pic. just to get their names in the paper,

i'm not saying its right to do this but its never gonna stop.

this is true i was next to a police car in slow moving traffic

last year + the driver was texting now thats a pic

i wish i took.

[Messenjah]

if it ake a pic of a bloke on his phone and hand it in to the police they would say on yer bike m8 ..

[antz]

if it ake a pic of a bloke on his phone and hand it in to the police they would say on yer bike m8 ..

 

or do you for using ya phone whilst driving

[DoireMan]

yes he did wrong but to fair....sad bastards for reporting him..dont they have a life? ...i see white van men on their phone all the tiem but i dont grab mine and take a picture to report to the police.

 

And its only a big story cos its JC. If i did it i wouldnt get a mention in the local paper (and they have jack shit to write about!)....its all a load of hype.

 

if hes done wrong, he must accept the point, pay the fine. job done...why all the hype?

 

Totally agree.

[MEXY867M]

saddo`s for takin a picture,havent they got a life,

[bmxdave]

"It has the same effect on a person as being just over the legal limit for drink driving"

 

That can be said about being old too. But you dont see me taking pictures of old people driving just because 'its a bit like being typsy'.

 

Its King ridiculous and extremely petty. Looking at the picture you can clearly see the person taking the picture is obviously driving aswell.

[jed]

No diffrent to any of us really...oh apart from hese rich and big headed

[Mr.Sumo]

Superintendent Mick Doyle, head of roads policing for Thames Valley Police, said: "We know that using a mobile phone whilst driving is extremely dangerous.

 

"It has the same effect on a person as being just over the legal limit for drink driving. To use a mobile phone whilst driving at any time is dangerous and at a high speed on the motorway it is simply stupid

 

He didn"t get caught by the Taliban though did he ...some d*ck took his picture .

 

Nuff said .

[boXXer]

I dont particullary like J.C, but christ, fooking grassers, what sad bastards.

[richie_stix]

yes he did wrong but to fair....sad bastards for reporting him..dont they have a life? ...i see white van men on their phone all the tiem but i dont grab mine and take a picture to report to the police.

 

And its only a big story cos its JC. If i did it i wouldnt get a mention in the local paper (and they have jack shit to write about!)....its all a load of hype.

 

if hes done wrong, he must accept the point, pay the fine. job done...why all the hype?

 

too King right! in london, 50% of cars that drive past have a driver using a mobile whilst looking at their sat nav and typing an email on their PDA... don't see me King sat at the side of the road with a video camera making reports! poor old jezza, ahs the whole weight of the motoring world on his shoulders as almost a spokes person!

[caprinerd]

i use to cab in the london area we had so many accidents at night from drink drivers and boy racers etc that our cars were fitted with video cameras but the police at that time would not accept this as evidence,now you can take a picture with your mobil and thats accepted?

dont get me wrong i dont agree with anyone breaking the law ,but how many of us can ,with our hands on our hearts,say we`ve never broke the law,whether its driving over the speed limit or eating or drinking or something like that

i know i cant

[Smudger105e]

I wonder how the Police would deal with it if I sent a string of pictures of drivers using mobile phones when driving? I reckon they would give me the old 'digital images can be manipulated' line, or anyway I suspect that no action would be taken on my word, and to be honest I don't think they should!