Her Majesty's traffic cops are getting ready to nail Britons careless enough to use a mobile phone while driving. New guidelines call for a maximum sentence of two years in jail and an unlimited fine for those convicted of dangerous driving, the most serious form of being a rolling prat. Current laws allow only for a small, automatic fine.
Immigration Minister Liam Byrne was fined 100 pounds last month for chatting on his phone while driving in Birmingham, just the kind of careless behavior that could send one's MG careening into a wheelie bin. (A Britishism I've been waiting forever to use, ever since hearing a BBC newsman gravely intone, "the body was found inside a wheelie bin.")
