Danger of USING Digital devices while driving

[WA5VHU]

If anyone hits me while texting and if I am still able to get to them I will give them a choice of which hole they want their phone shoved into, their mouth or the other end. They tried to kill me so I will give them their choice of how they want to die.

 

[vampyregirl]

This past Friday, a Michigan State University coach (I forget which sport, but it wasn't football) was "distracted driving" on US23. Ended up killing a mother and her 5 year old. Also involved a couple of other vehicles. He now has to live with this the rest of his life. Even when stuff like this happens, people will keep on using their phones, gps, etc while driving. Hell, I've even seen someone using a laptop computer (not the police) in their car while driving!!!

 

[PaladinLV]

I'm SOooooooo glad $$$ is being spent to research the . . . OBVIOUS!

AJ

I feel and lots and lots of behavioral research agrees that:

 

[ruralgirl]

Society's 24/7 umbilical cord to the almighty cell phone can have other consequences from the driver's seat. My friend, whose husband had been stressed and depressed for several months, was recently summoned to Child Protective Services for what, within several hours, would be retracted as totally false charges against her husband. Instead of waiting the 15 minutes that it took her to drive home so she could deliver the upsetting news in person, she hopped on her smart phone the moment she left the parking lot and proceeded to text her husband about the insane accusations.

It put him over the edge. As his texts became weird and then ceased, she suddenly realized where his brain was going. Gunning her truck to get home, she endangered everyone on the road. And then, running across the backyard to his workshop, she heard the single gun shot which instantly made her a widow and their 8 year old daughter fatherless.

 

[SteveP]

Here's one from the weekend

http://www.cp24.com/news/toronto-pa...s-2-killed-in-crash-near-haliburton-1.3505669