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“I thought this would be a wake up call for her,” said Clark’s mother Bonnye Spray. “And it was for a short time she wouldn’t talk on the phone, she was more cautious. But she got more confident in her driving and a sense of ‘Hey, I survived one, I’m invincible, nothing is going to happen to me now.’”
[h=1]She survived her first driving-while-texting accident – but not her second
So, instead of putting the phone away after the first accident, she went on to kill herself by texting while driving a year later. So much for awareness of the danger. What does it take, I wonder, for the texters, the tailgaters, and the Indy driver wannabes to quit doing what they're doing?
A $150 fine certainly doesn't do the job.
[h=1]She survived her first driving-while-texting accident – but not her second
So, instead of putting the phone away after the first accident, she went on to kill herself by texting while driving a year later. So much for awareness of the danger. What does it take, I wonder, for the texters, the tailgaters, and the Indy driver wannabes to quit doing what they're doing?
A $150 fine certainly doesn't do the job.
There's talk here of confiscating their phones. A week for the first offense, a month for the second, on top of the fines.
Sounds good to me.
Well until they just buy another one.
Yeah, but sometimes they take us with them! :dohGene pool cleansing itself, sadly some are simply not equipped to survive in the world.
True, but a lot of people would lose more than a cell phone. Especially if they use it for work/business.
Gene pool cleansing itself, sadly some are simply not equipped to survive in the world.
There's talk here of confiscating their phones. A week for the first offense, a month for the second, on top of the fines.
Sounds good to me.
Agreed.Using your phone is not all that bad. Texting and internet browsing certainly is.
For the millions of people driving around talking on the phone there are remarkably few accidents.
You can't make everything illegal. They keep trying that here in California. The make talking on a cell phone illegal without hands free. Well, the law is now pretty much ignored, but we have created a few million more lawbreakers.
Exactly, they would just get another one. If you want to accomplish something put them in jail for the week instead.
Yeah, but sometimes they take us with them! :doh
Agreed.
A suburb near me made eating while driving illegal.
That would kill us as a family, because whenever I send one of the kids out to pick-up food that has a finger-friendly component (ex: french fries), we commonly have a process occur during the return trip that we jokingly refer to as "evaporation"!
Well until they kill someone else due to their distracted driving.
Agreed.
A suburb near me made eating while driving illegal.
That would kill us as a family, because whenever I send one of the kids out to pick-up food that has a finger-friendly component (ex: french fries), we commonly have a process occur during the return trip that we jokingly refer to as "evaporation"!
I agree. Blew my mind when at the time Governor Perry refused to sign a bill outlawing texting and driving, it is like supporting drunk driving, oh except that the drunk is at least Trying to drive where as the texter has given up on the idea completely.
I make them drive the dog-mobile! :thumbs:If anyone dared eat in my car I'd skin them alive
What?How does a suburb make something illegal? Secondly, I doubt that is the kind of behavior that the law is aimed at.
lmao that would be worse than a jail term to most of today's smartphoneaholics. People just can't put their damn phones away...especially the millennials and teens.
[h=1]She survived her first driving-while-texting accident – but not her second
So, instead of putting the phone away after the first accident, she went on to kill herself by texting while driving a year later. So much for awareness of the danger. What does it take, I wonder, for the texters, the tailgaters, and the Indy driver wannabes to quit doing what they're doing?
A $150 fine certainly doesn't do the job.
If you do you will be arrested.Is it true that in the US you do not take drunk driving very seriously? Apparently you can refuse to take a breathalyzer test?
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