Stupid, stupid, stupid. #ddtb
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Driver sent or got 11 texts in 11 min before crash
A 19-year-old pickup truck driver involved in a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the accident, federal investigators said Tues…
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I had a roommate who was in her early 20s. I could not get her to stop texting while driving. When Washington state made drive-texting illegal, she began holding the phone in her lap so police wouldn’t see it. This meant that her eyes were farther from the road, so her texting was more dangerous once it was explicitly outlawed.
@Avo – Not much you can do, unfortunately, about a situation like that, aside from forwarding her grisly stories like this, and refuse to get into a car with her unless you’re holding her phone.
Totally agree with you there. I've been reading more and more stories like this (unfortunately), yet I'm seeing more and more people doing this exact thing. A majority of them being truck drivers.
My company is extremely strict about this when driving on company business … and it's an attitude I've carried with me into my non-work life.
I work in downtown Denver, and walk at lunch. Every time … every time … someone idiot almost hits me in a sidewalk as I'm crossing, or cutting over-tightly around a corner I'm standing on, they have a frelling mobile phone plastered against their head.