Re: Worse than drink driving!!!
Yes, and the police can ask what calls were being made during the window of the incident. But don't think that driving with a hand free system makes you any safer.
http://www.mthr.org.uk/research_projects/documents/Rum5FinalReport.pdf is a reasonably robust study from TRL that looks at the differences in driver capability when engaged in different tasks and concludes that hands free conversations have significantly more effect than normal conversations.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15614838 compares the effect with alcohol (and to a certain level of alcohol, hands free comes off worse.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19433208 reviews studies the compare hands free with handed conversations, and yes, concludes that they have a similar effect on driving effectiveness.
Moral - just don't answer the phone or texts when driving. Either have your phone hand off when you are in the car, and/or pull over.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
