In the Netherlands you can be fined between €150,- and €2000,- or two months jail if caught driving with a phone in your hand. And rightfully so.

It's annoying if someone in front of you is driving like an elderly driver just because they MUST use the phone whilst driving.

If you're driving, you're driving, period. Recently someone crashed into me from behind because she was searching something in her bag, whilst driving.

My car didn't have a scratch, hers was curled around my towbar. Heh.

Even if there isn't anything but a hole in the road – no signs, no fence, nothing – the average, non-braindead among us would walk around it.

This is the suing era gone mad. People need to take responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming other people when they make themselves look like an idiot.

I can't believe this is even happening. If this goes to the court, the judge should throw it out straight away.

SHE walked her body into a hole. Simple. That's all. Yes, she's bruised, she might have a few internal injuries. But it's her OWN fault.

No-one pushed her. She didn't slip on anything. She just didn't look where she was going. She's an idiot.

Why is it always the trailer trash that's in these stories and not the reasonably clever? Because the clever among us either look where we are going or stop crying like a baby soon after we make a mistake.

If she was looking at her phone and not where she was going, then she deserved what she got. If she was even five feet in front of the manhole, she should have been able to notice it beforehand and avoid falling in. I don't know, I can't be the only one who looks up every few seconds if I happen to be doing something else while I'm walking (I have been known to successfully read a book and walk without any problems.)