I can't see why they don't just introduce a lifetime driving ban for anyone caught using a mobile while driving.

I strongly disagree.

Gut shot, left in a roadside ditch in the sun to bleed out slowly....

(I am a little psychotic on the subject because I have to cross the main road through our village to get my mail and morning paper. I use a marked cross walk. I nearly get hit by someone who fails to notice me, on the average once every ten days or two week. Maybe eight out of ten times that happens, the driver is talking on a cell phone.)

Peter.