Texting while driving is a notoriously common sight on Maltese roads. But even the most brazen of local motorists might think twice before copying this Philadelphia driver. 

In video sent to Philadelphia news network 6 ABC, a driver can be seen texting while driving along the motorway - with her feet on the steering wheel. 

A passenger in an adjacent vehicle was so outraged by the woman driver's recklessness that she recorded it on her phone. 

"You see people on their phones all the time, but that took the cake," Sarah Delong told 6 ABC Action News. "At one point we beeped at her and I yelled 'get off your phone!' And she looked and smirked at me and went right back to doing whatever it was on her phone," she added.

Mrs Delong and her husband reported the woman to local police, who have said they are trying to track her down.