A girl on my August board just witnessed an accident at lunch...Car swerves into other lane hits another car...17 year old is the driver of the swervy car, the lady he hit was 70ish, trapped in her car severly injured. Had to use the jaws of life to get her out. She died in the ambulance...the kid admitted to texting while driving.
Sad.
Re: Sad....
House / Baby blog
That is horrible!
I actually worry these days that I'll be hit by someone texting while driving. I have done it in the past (TWD), but I've stopped because I'm paranoid and pay more attention to my surroundings now.
I mean, would you ever read a book while driving? Same idea in my mind (though I have seen drivers reading the newspaper while in traffic... so dumb!!)
How sad.
I've seen a guy reading a book while on the Interstate before. He had it propped up on the steering wheel.
That poor woman.......even that poor boy. He has no idea how much he just messed up his life (emotionally more than anything).
House / Baby blog
People are horrible.
40/112
The worst I've seen is a lady painting her fingernails on the steering wheel while driving on the highway.
Nose Job Blog
Yeah I hope they charge him and I'm sure the family can and will sue.
[QUOTE]Ugh, that is so sad. Years ago I was on a deserted, side road and was texting while driving and almost flipped my car. I spun around and somehow stayed on the road but it scared me so badly I will never pick up my phone while driving again. To this day I never even take it out of my purse when I'm in the car, it can wait.
Posted by andressfrank[/QUOTE]
Holy scary!!!!
[QUOTE]I've seen a guy reading a book while on the Interstate before. He had it propped up on the steering wheel. :/
Posted by georgia_bride09[/QUOTE]
Me too.
I followed a lady the other day, that every time traffic slowed down a bit she'd go back to applying her mascara. I kept waiting on someone to jam on the brakes making her shove the brush in her eye.
But sad part is she probably wouldn't learn.
I'm in NY and texting here is also illegal. It became illegal this past October, to which my response was "WTF, hasn't that been illegal for years?!" My Fi responded "no J, phone calls were illegal." I couldn't imagine anyone trying to text while driving, but people are stupid. I know a girl, someone who went to HS with my sister, who updates Facebook and Twitter while driving because, and I quote, "It's not illegal yet!"
Thankfully I couldn't even text and drive if I wanted to because I suck at it, but I wouldn't anyway because it's so dangerous.