Crash. Bang. Wallop. What a video! Yes, we may be a nation obsessed with grainy TV footage of idiot motorists doing dangerous things on our roads, but have you ever thought there might be a correlation with our online safety too?

What? Do what to myself? Well, that's rather rude. A simple "no" would have sufficed. Sigh.

Fear not, though, as help is at hand from anti-virus vendor par excellence PC Tools, which has commissioned some research into the matter.

The study of 1,000 motorists, which (cough, splutter) just happens to coincide with the firm's sponsorship of TDS Racing and partnership with the World Series by Renault, found that dangerous drivers are FIVE times more likely to suffer identity theft. FIVE!

It doesn't end there, though. Oh no. They are eight times more likely to click on links in emails from unknown sources, five times more likely to open emails containing viruses, and twice as likely to reveal personal details to fraudulent web sites. Idiots.

Oh, and they're about a billion times more likely to end up on an achingly bad ITV4 copumentary series while a failed newscaster patronises their driving style from a nearby studio.

So what's the takeaway from this? Don't type while driving? Er, probably not. Ah, hang on, Sneak's got it: if you drive dangerously, get the hell off the internet before you kill someone!!!

As London returns to normal following the riots last week, the police are busy rounding up those who participated in the violence and disorder, with technology aiding in any way it can.

Sneak was particularly pleased to see one oik get his comeuppance thanks to a nifty bit of open source software installed on a Macbook Pro which was stolen from an information security worker/hacker called Greg Martin.

The hapless moron was tracked by the software from Prey Project so that once he logged on to the device with a new user account and started browsing, it was only a matter of time before swift, sweet justice was delivered.

The clincher was when he logged into Facebook, enabling Martin to see his name, location and stupid drunken photos.

Soon the boys in blue (the Met, not the Smurfs, just to be clear) were on their way to the looter's lair and before you could say "Steve Jobs" the device was returned to its owner.

Aw, Sneak loves a happy ending.

The beauty with location-based devices - tablets, smartphones, laptops - is that if they get stolen there's usually a way to find out where they are and who nabbed them.

So, when one man had his MacBook stolen in Oakland, California he knew that his Hidden app would be just the tool to track down the bandit and bring him to justice. And he set up a blog to track the status of the case for all the internet to enjoy.

The app works by broadcasting its location, and taking pictures and screen grabs on the sly of what the laptop is being made to do against its will, helping to give the legitimate owner the chance for retribution.

So, our hero in this story saw the thief delete his account, log in to his Facebook page, take a quick nap, go for a drive and lie in bed ... although what he was doing in bed was thankfully not revealed to the wider internet.

Needless to say, the thief was oblivious and was soon picked up by the police, no doubt wondering how his perfect crime was solved. Well, this is technology, son. If you're going to nick it, you gotta know how to work it.

No doubt the policeman who collared the thief casually tossed off a well aimed quip, perhaps "MacBook him, Danno".

This is not the first time Sneak has been impressed by this sort of technology. Former England rugby captain Will Carling was involved in a dramatic game of cat and mouse over a stolen iPad, which also resulted in a happy ending.