“There is currently no legislation to ban the use of smart watches whilst driving despite the fact that tests have shown that they cause even more driver distraction than mobile phones.

“At a speed of 50mph, reading a message on an Apple Watch would add 36.6 feet to the average stopping distance for a car. This could be the difference between life and death especially if there was a potential collision with a pedestrian or a cyclist.”

SmartWitness manufacture the leading professional and private use dash cams, which create court admissible videos of road incidents and help business car managers to monitor company car driver behaviour.