BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has shared footage of a ‘shocking driver’ eating chips while driving and using her phone twice on London’s Kensington High Street – behaviour he claims he intends to report her for.
The cycle campaigner released the clip on his Twitter where he posts numerous cycling videos containing interactions with drivers he deems poor.
Earlier this month, one of the 57-year-old’s videos showing him being passed incredibly closely by a bus and shouting ‘Woah!’ was viewed over 2 million times.
In his latest clip, Jeremy Vine, who also presents a TV show on Channel 5, announced that the ‘worst part of [his] commute is Kensington High Street [and] the worst part of Kensington High Street is drivers like this.
Narrating footage of his commute, the broadcaster calls attention to the conduct of a woman driving a Landrover Discovery.
Jeremy Vine claims he filmed a woman eating a bag of chips at the wheel
The broadcaster also filmed the driver on her phone at red lights
He says: ‘This is a 4X4 driver doing the ol’ “I can eat a bag of chips with two hands and still drive routine”
‘Against this large vehicle, a cyclist is just a bag of blood.
‘I wouldn’t have uploaded this footage where it not for what happened next.
‘It turns out she thinks its OK to be on her phone at the lights, typing two handed.’
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After catching up to the driver, he sees she is again on her phone and reprimands her.
‘Just a reminder, this behaviour gets you a £60 fine and 600 points on your license.’
After sharing the video on social media, Jeremy Vine was inundated with messages of support and shock from fellow cyclists and his followers.
One said: ‘Jeremy, it is terrifying watching these clips.
‘I have been driving for nearly 43 years and the standard of driving has deteriorated immensely.’
Another said: ‘£600 is nothing to someone like her. Hopefully the 6 points is!’
Another posited: ‘Have seen a bloke two-handledly overtake me one morning eating a full baguette.
‘Another time, another vehicle I was in, saw a man spooning his cereal down his face on the M27.
‘Used to often see full mugs of coffee or tea being drunk. Not so much now.’
There was some confusion over whether the driver in question was eating crisps or an actual bag of chips.
Luckily this was something that Jeremy Vine himself corrected in the comments.
He said: ‘It was chips, not crisps… i.e. hot food. But as I say I would not have uploaded for that alone.’
