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multi-tasking to a new level . . . by driving a bus at the same time.
If it were a competition, his actions – using his elbows to turn the steering wheel – may have entitled him to an award.
Instead the Roman, who was filmed taking passengers to the city’s Ciampino Airport, was suspended for endangering tourists’ lives.
The driver, who was suspended, was secretly filmed using two phones while steering with elbows
During the video, traffic can be seen going down the road on the opposite side during this secretly-recorded two-minute clip.
Like in Britain, it is a criminal offence to use one mobile phone at the wheel – let alone two.
The unnamed man may yet keep his job though.
Regional transport commissioner Francesco Lollobrigida told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he had been “suspended pending disciplinary proceedings.”
He said that suspending the driver was “necessary to protect passengers and also the image of the many transport workers who have impeccable behaviour and who are the majority in this region.”
“A driver who knowingly endangers people travelling in his vehicle must be sacked. See it all the time in Italy . . . It’s every man for himself in the north and you regularly see them driving with a phone in hand.”
Here’s what the readers said:
michael, heckmondwike: I saw a bus driver in London with his mobile in one hand at his ear and the other hand negotiating a roundabout with a load of passengers on board.
Joy, London, england: I see this level of stupidity almost every day from the wheel of my truck. My high vantage point affords a view of execs juggling papers while phoning, applications of makeup and motorway hairdressing and the most frightening female face to face conversations when both parties maintain full eye contact for long periods and at speed.
Altrincham Cheshire: Too old to suffer idiots gladly, That’s not all! He was’nt wearing any shoes and was eating a bowl of pasta with his feet?
General Sir Percy Rogerring, Farcam Hall Midsomer: No, Joey Goswell, London, we haven’t all done it. Most people have trouble even walking while they’re using a phone, never mind driving.
They are completely unaware of anything around them and just step out to cross roads in front of traffice because they don’t even know they’ve reached a kerb. If you’re driving, concentrate on the road.
Eddie John: In the real world. Few men can truly multi-task.
That goes back to caveman days when men needed total concentration to hunt without either scaring their prey or becoming prey themselves.
Women did the cooking, cleaning the cave and keeping the children out of mischief, all at the same time, so didn’t need the ability to focus on one thing.
That’s also why many women can hold several different conversations, sometimes over a period of weeks, without any of them losing track of where they are with any of them.
We all now have to try to do both, but that’s a necessity of our lifestyles and jobs, it doesn’t change our evolution.
Debbie, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: This man is a multi-tasking wimp: I’ve seen lorry drivers on a mobile phone – whilst watching a movie on a laptop – whilst cooking their breakfast on a gas stove – whilst texting – whilst smoking! – and without sleeping for three days! – Daily Mail.