Road safety officials criticise ‘selfie’ craze among drivers

It’s the latest driving craze — and it’s almost certain to cost lives.

Drivers have been taking ‘selfies’ — photographs of themselves with their mobile phones — and posting them on picture sharing site Instagram.

There are already over 3m posts on Instagram tagged with “#driving”, nearly 50,000 with “#drivinghome”, over 9,000 tagged “#drivingtowork”, and more than 3,500 tagged “#drivingselfie”.