Anyone else noticed since the introduction of tougher penalties for using a mobile device whilst driving that some drivers are choosing ridiculously stupid and dangerous locations to park to use the device? 

 

Over the last few weeks I've noted one driver park the other side of a blind bend, one driver park on a single carriageway where solid white lines were in force, another at the exit of a slip road leaving just enough space for people to squeeze through. 

 

To be fair they did all have their hazards on - two of them were definitely not breakdowns as they drove off once they had finished updating fb. 

Yes.

There was one yesterday parked over pedestrian crossing zig-zags, double white lines and the pavement.  In the link below, a 4x4 towing a livestock trailer was parked on the left with the driver on the phone.  I'd just come out of the junction to the bottom left of the view and had to immediately pull onto the wrong side of the road to get round him, but vision was practically zero.

https://goo.gl/maps/94iQnhGbxgJ2

As I passed him, he put his phone down and drove off.

Dumb blonde sat in her convertible Audi at the traffic lights on a busy ring road holding her phone in her hand in deep conversation and when I looked across in amazement she gave an indignant look as if was in the wrong.