DRIVING at 40 miles per hour with both hands off the wheel, this man was captured looking at a phone in his hands rather than at the road ahead.

He is yet another motorist photographed driving along the busy Wessex Way in Bournemouth without concern for the safety of other drivers.

Bournemouth Echo:

The man appears not to be touching the steering wheel of his white diesel DAF tipper truck as he drives along the stretch of dual carriageway near Richmond Hill.

Wearing dark glasses and with one hand against his face, he looks down at the hand-held phone while his passenger sits alongside.

His actions were captured by a Daily Echo photographer as part of a campaign to highlight bad driving.

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The photograph was one of dozens taken of drivers doing 40mph on the Wessex Way, which reveal a catalogue of offences , published the day after the Dorset Police No Excuse team revealed some of the excuses drivers have given them when stopped.

Yesterday was also My Red Thumb Day, a driver awareness initiative designed to stop people using their mobile phones while driving.

Bournemouth Echo:

But our pictures show lots of drivers talking on hand-held mobile phones - one woman even holds her phone in her hand with a child sat in the passenger seat of the vehicle.

Sergeant Stuart Pitman of the Dorset Police No Excuse Team has warned drivers to be wary of the so-called 'fatal five'.

“Dorset Police's dedicated ‘no excuse’ team was set up to address community concerns in relation to issues affecting their lives, poor driving and to deny criminals the use of our roads," he said.

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“We use a combination of enforcement and education to tackle the ‘fatal five’: drink and drug driving, excessive and inappropriate speed, not wearing a seatbelt, careless driving and driver distractions such as using a hand-held mobile phone, eating or drinking, smoking, reading or operating a Sat Nav.

Bournemouth Echo:

“We educate people at the roadside and through the Driver Awareness Course in an attempt to get them to realise the consequences of their actions and that it is not always them that can cause a collision.

“We are committed to reduce the number of casualties on Dorset’s roads in lines with our priorities. The team operates 24 hours a day seven days a week – we could be anywhere at any time.

Members of the public can follow the no excuse team on twitter @DorsetNoExcuse and www.facebook.com/dorsetpolicenoexcuse.”