Gary Lineker leads criticism of ‘vile’ Daily Mail front page about foreign drivers

Because only foreign drivers are guilty of using their phones while driving after all.

Gary Lineker was just one of a number people who criticised the Daily Mail for a sensationalist front page on Wednesday morning, a front page that features images of 17 foreign truck drivers spotted illegally using their mobile phones while driving on the M20 motorway in the UK. The front page and accompanying article follows on from the tragic deaths of Tracy Houghton, her two sons and step daughter after Polish truck driver Tomasz Kroker, distracted while using his phone behind the wheel, ploughed into traffic on the A34 in Berkshire and killed them instantly. Kroker has been jailed for ten years as a result. The Daily Mail subsequently captured images of 17 drivers, all of whom they claim to be ‘foreign truckers’, using their mobile phones while driving in a 90-minute period on the M20 motorway, most of whom were heading to or from Dover and the Eurotunnel. While outrage at such actions is justified, the insinuation that only foreign drivers are guilty of the offence was the subject of criticism from Lineker and many others on social media overnight. https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/793592252505395200 https://twitter.com/PhilippeAuclair/status/793598564060524545 https://twitter.com/Andrew_Heaton/status/793620992916611072 https://twitter.com/WomaninHavana/status/793707203815505920 https://twitter.com/MattHughesTimes/status/793589352064487424 https://twitter.com/StanCollymore/status/793601546709762048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/mufc_dan87/status/793705604690878464 https://twitter.com/AchtungJono/status/793591192428699648 https://twitter.com/TonyBarrett/status/793726752044515328