Woman spotted flossing teeth while driving on busy motorway

A woman has been photographed flossing her teeth with both hands while driving at 100km/h (62mph) down one of the busiest roads on Australia's Gold Coast - and police are not impressed. The woman was snapped flossing her teeth with both hands while driving down the M1 at Yatala in Queensland at about 2.40pm on Monday.

Arundel local Derek Flett was a being driven home from work when he saw the driver cleaning her teeth. “We beeped the horn and asked what she was doing and she just looked at us as if to say, ‘I’m flossing, what do you think I’m doing?’” he said. “There were no hands on the wheel which is really dangerous.



“She was having a real go at it.” Mr Flett said she flossed for about 10 minutes. “The M1 is dangerous enough with both hands on the wheel, let alone picking at your teeth,” he said. Gold Coast Chief Superintendent Des Lacy said the woman’s behaviour was a “fatality waiting to happen”.

“That just defies belief because she would have to be holding the steering wheel with her knees and would only need one event such as something coming out from the side of the road, or a vehicle changing lanes, for things to go bad,” he said. “How people can think they possibly have control of a vehicle while driving with their knees is beyond belief.”