On Facebook Looking At Women, Trucker Caused Deadly Accident

CBS News Las Vegas ^ | November 3, 2013

[grundle]

PHOENIX (CBS Las Vegas) – Looking at photos of women on Facebook is what distracted the driver of an empty fuel tanker when he crashed into two fire department trucks and three police cars on Interstate 8 killing a public safety officer in May.

According to the Arizona Daily Star, Officer Tim Huffman was killed in the accident by truck driver, Jorge Espinoza, who is charged with second-degree murder. Espinoza was driving with cruise control on at 65 mph at the time of the accident.

After the accident, Espinoza lied to investigators claiming he didn’t see the emergency vehicles ahead because he was looking at a passing truck in his mirror and that he never uses his phone while driving.

The Arizona Daily Star reported that information taken from Espinoza’s phone shows him using the internet at the time of accident.

The information from Espinoza’s phone shows he was looking at “photographs of several women in provocative positions, wearing little clothing,” on Facebook the newspaper wrote. On other occassions while driving the truck, Espinoza has looked at Youtube, a few female escort web pages, porn sites and other social networks sites, investigators stated.

[Liberty Valance]

Nightmare.

[SamAdams76]

What people seem to be missing here is that the government now has the ability to subpoena phone records and see exactly what you were doing on your phone and exactly when you were doing it.

Right now, the government still needs some pretext for obtaining your phone records (such as an accident that caused a fatality) but you know it is only a matter of time before they can obtain those records for any kind of moving violation, such as speeding or failure to stop at a stop sign.

[Signalman]

This guy needs jail time.

[golux]

I have no problems with these two-legged things talking on CBs about lot lizards and taking pictures of mountains and eating tenderized hamburger steak and whatnot but it will be a fine day when we can do away with this ridiculously unreliable human interface and get right down to the business of computer-controlled transportation.