Death by texting and driving

[unit321]

Whereas shootings usually involve innocent lives being taken and therefore it's more tragic.

So if a distracted driver ends up killing a pedestrian, motorcyclist or people in another vehicle in an accident this is his or her's fault, isn't that taking away innocent lives and tragic?

 

[NBA Youngbreh]

women are already horrible drivers you better get off yalls goddamn phone

 

[Won Won]

I probably see 5+ people a day on their phone as I past them in the highway. This will only get worse

I've once seen a guy on the highway playing a scratch ticket on his steering wheel

 

[Dr. Acula]

So if a distracted driver ends up killing a pedestrian, motorcyclist or people in another vehicle in an accident this is his or her's fault, isn't that taking away innocent lives and tragic?

yeah. I guess I didn't fully flesh out my post. Still, most people agree that texting and driving is bad and society as a whole has moved to fight it.

 

[unit321]

You will be called a nerd if you pull over to the side of the road just to send or read a text message.

I don't bother picking up my smartphone when a text message comes in.
I'll read it when I have arrived at my destination and am parked. 10 times out of 10, the text message is never a dire emergency.

When people hear a sound from their smartphone that they received a text, they are compelled to read it and sometimes respond by typing in their text message. The problem with texting is that your eyes are off the road for multiple seconds, not fractions of a second. The curve in a road can change slightly after 3 seconds of driving at 45 MPH. Traffic lights/signs can come up. A car ahead of you can suddenly stop in the roadway because of a traffic jam.
Be safe out there and don't text and drive.

 

[Strapped]

Anyone know if this is true about touching a cell phone while driving