IT was with interest that I read in the Lancashire Telegraph and national papers that police are to get tough on idiots who use mobile phones while driving.

It is about time there was a crackdown on these irresponsible idiots who think they are immune from the laws of the land.

Perhaps a stint in jail would awaken them to their duties as drivers (to be responsible for their own and others' safety while driving).

I have witnessed two examples of downright idiotic driving.

One was a driver who was in the middle lane of the M6 near Preston, travelling at 45mph oblivious to the fact that cars had to pass him on the inner and outer lanes. He was on his mobile.

And in Clitheroe I saw a woman driver travelling from Henthorn who turned into Thorn Street on a busy Saturday morning.

She had her mobile stuck on her left ear with the use of her left hand, a cigarette in between her first two fingers and was turning her steering wheel with her lower two fingers of the same right hand. On top of this, she did not have her seatbelt on.

The way forward is a total ban on all usage with or without hands-free equipment, with a prison sentence of five years and a total life car driving ban on people who get caught breaking the law.

If this was introduced then we would see fewer people killed by these idiots.

RON LOEBELL, Edisford Road, Clitheroe.