This was the moment a driver was confronted by a cyclist who caught her apparently watching a film at the wheel of her car.
The woman was spotted with a smartphone mounted on her windscreen, which was playing a video as she drove in Warrington in Cheshire.
The gobsmacked cyclist, a member of the Stop Killing Cyclists campaign group which has led a series of "die-in" protests in London, challenged the woman on her viewing habits as they waited at a red light.
His helmet-mounted camera captured the exchange as he told her: “The police can arrest you for that, take your licence.
“Roads aren’t dangerous enough? I’ve lost friends to people like you.”
The woman, who was holding a cigarette, at first denied watching television, before appearing to admit: “It's, er, it's a film.”
The cyclist responds “You're watching a film while you are driving your car?" and the woman says: "No, I'm not driving, I'm listening to the film."
The bike rider, 28, who wished to remain anonymous, runs the YouTube channel CycleSmarter dedicated to exposing safety concerns for cyclists.
The footage follows a similar incident in July when a driver was caught watching Masterchef on a tablet.
He told the Standard: “I am no longer surprised having seen drivers reading books, eating breakfast, applying make-up and of course the overly common-place mobile phone use, but I remain disgusted.”
He said a number of friends and acquaintances have died on the roads, including a motorcyclist and a friend who was jogging in London, and added: “It was an active choice to distract herself from driving, no matter how slight she believes that distraction is, the evidence (safety studies into distracted driving) attest that it is of equal or greater danger to driving drunk.
“My reaction is always to plead with such drivers, if it is safe to do so, in the hope they realise how dangerous and selfish their illegal behaviour is.”
The footage was recorded on September 17 at about 7.40am.
The cyclist, who lives in Manchester, made a report to Cheshire Police and was told by an officer that they had called the woman and “reminded her of her responsibilities with respect to mobile phones in the car”.
However, he said the officer told him the footage was not clear enough to take the matter further.
The Standard has contacted Cheshire Police for a comment.
