So can I sue morons who voted for Obama?
That’s quite a stretch. I get texts while driving but never read them till I stop. So what happens if I read a text and then pull out into traffic and immediately get in an accident?
Why not the same for a cell phone call? What about waving to your friend as he drives by? He’d have to take one hand off the wheel. Are drive thru restaurants liable if you have an accident while eating?
This is the same mentality as the bar tender being responsible for serving too much.
I’m beginning to think that just as politics is there for people without the intellectual ability to do useful work, judgeships are there for those lawyers who are unable to do useful law. (Liberal judges, at least.)
So now you have to know when someone is driving or not? The NSA app for that isn’t out yet.
Pretty funny stuff. If I had not given up all hope that this system is not going to crash and burn, this story would create an emotional response.
Now, I just think it’s funny.
Everybody is liable for everything here in NJ. Except the “protected” classes. Funny, though illegal, at least 1/4 of the drivers on the road are on the phone.
*Message senders can also be held responsible in civil cases, if they know the recipient is driving and likely to read the text while behind the wheel.*
How stupid!
The responsibility is with the driver.
when I text....I try to think of where the recipient is. If I think they are in a car I do not text. reading texts and texting is WAY too dangerous.
but of course there is no way to know where the recipient is. and this Judge is just a WAD.
I wonder if a chip couldn’t be in every smart phone that would attach a notice to any text message that the sender wasn’t driving.
It wouldn’t be a panacea, but if the driver got into a serious accident, the time stamped message could be used as evidence of gross negligence on the part of the idiot that was driving while texting.