Police commissioner responds to shock footage of distracted drivers scrolling social media on the road

Distracted drivers have been captured taking reckless risks on the road, scrolling social media, checking emails and even using laptops at 100km/h.

A Current Affair showed Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir our footage. He was appalled.

"It snapshots the danger of what that sort of behaviour can lead to," Weir said.

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"Your primary purpose when you are in a vehicle is driving that vehicle, not checking texts, socials, emails.

"You've got one focus, one job - drive the car."

Fines for using phones while driving vary from state to state.

Infringements are as high as $1200 in Queensland, along with hefty demerit points.

"Despite all the advertisements and changes to technology of enforcement and focus from us - we are still seeing people take unacceptable, weird, and reckless risks with putting themselves and others in danger by being distracted by mobile phone use," Weir said.

"It's ridiculous."

According to some research, half of all drivers admit to using their phones behind the wheel.

But police say any death on the road is one death too many.

"People need to realise it will happen to them, they should be thankful when we intercept them because we've probably saved them from trauma," Weir said.

Holly Scott is one of the lucky ones. In 2017 she survived a horror crash in Adelaide.

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"My car was wrapped around a tree, I took the full impact, hitting the tree on my side of the car door, I don't know how long I was in my car until I was found," she recalled.

"I broke both my legs, my femur bones, I shattered my pelvis completely, I broke multiple vertebrae in my spine, I fractured my right tail bone, my liver and spleen was torn.

Holly is frustrated some aren't getting the message, in turn putting the whole community in danger.

"It angers me. Even though in my car crash I wasn't doing anything wrong, I over-corrected and swerved to avoid missing a kangaroo," she said.

"It isn't just you on the road, there's so many other people.

"People definitely think they're invincible and it won't happen to them but it could easily happen to you. I never thought this would happen to me, but it did. "

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