LONDON -- People have been caught doing all sorts of strange things while driving, but playing a musical instrument is probably one of the more unusual activities.
A woman who was on a bus snapped a photo of a man driving a car down a major road in the south of England while also playing a bass guitar.
ITV News reports that the man, who was wearing a suit at the time, was playing a five-string Warwick electric bass on the busy A27 near Chichester in West Sussex. He seems to have one hand on the wheel, the other on the neck of the bass.
Motorist spotted driving while playing guitar http://t.co/OExSBMIYI3 pic.twitter.com/5gRFA0ay2O— Adam Clark (@adamclarkitv) May 5, 2015
"He was definitely playing the guitar and my first thought was: 'Oh my god, is he really doing that?'" Nichola Carr, who took the photo, said, according to the Mirror.
Driving safety experts said they had never heard of anyone playing the bass and driving at the same time.
"We always say you cannot do two things at once if one of them is driving," Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, told the paper.
A couple of drivers in the U.S. have spotted similar activity recently.
Only in @OnlyInHellA. Dude's playing guitar WHILE driving. pic.twitter.com/aXKQd8URqi— Sarah Marie Brown (@BrownSarahMarie) April 18, 2015
Wait wut... Playing guitar while driving pic.twitter.com/TCcQBopVaY— Elysia Morelli (@elysiamorelli) March 13, 2015
Dangerous multi-tasking behind the wheel is nothing new. Earlier this year a cyclist in Scotland captured a driver at the wheel of a Land Rover with his earphones in, a mobile phone in his hand and an open, switched on laptop beside him on the passenger seat.