Sad. RIP.
This is tragic but I wonder why Vinnie never married Stacey.
Every work day, I drive home past a Verizon “don’t text and drive” billboard and marvel at the fact that they even felt the need to run that campaign.
I have had more incidents where I work in the last two years because of our drivers using a cellphone than the last 14 combined.
And these drivers drive concrete mixers.
We now have a policy that if they are ever caught using a cellphone while driving they will get one warning, just one, second time they are released. Fired, terminated, hit the road Jack, whatever.
The problem is not "importance" of the message per se, but the "immediacy" of the contact. People seem to feel that they have to send a message, or reply to one, RIGHT NOW NO MATTER WHAT.
It's nuts. I've felt the "pull" of the immediacy myself at times -- it's hard to ignore. I quit smoking many years ago, and that was actually easier in some respects.
Seems I’ve done rather well without all this technology.
Personally, I can't understand the attraction of all these devices. For some people a pager/cell phone may be necessary for business purposes. But I think most people go around with these things just to flaunt their “wealth” and to look cool.
Really, what is so important that you have to page or text or call someone from your vehicle while driving? Probably nothing.
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/cellularphonelaws/
and has outlawed the use of handheld wireless telephones while driving as of July 1, 2008.
However, people still routinely ignore these laws. I still see motorists "on the phone" who are texting while holding the phone in their laps, or have the phone on speaker while holding it away from the head like it's a pack of playing cards.
There's also a certain group of motorists--who are also often driving SUVs with tinted windows and no license plates (at least none in the back)--who still talk on the hand-held cell phone quite blithely, with no concern at all.
I fear driving these days. Heck, I even fear being a pedestrian!
Just recently drove with my friend from new orleans to baton rouge, about an hour drive. I was the passenger, so I was gazing out the window a bit. For about a 20-30 mile stretch, every single female that we passed was either texting or on the cell phone. I did not see a male doing the same during this period.
It’s time for women to get their heads out of their electronic pacifiers and stop being menaces to other people on the road. Get control of your ADD and your endless need to socialize and pay attention to the road.
Nationwide ban on texting while driving.
Lawsuit against the cellular provider incoming in 5... 4... 3...
Being caught text messaging and driving should result in forfeiture of your car and 10 year prison term mandatory. Enforce it and it will stop.
My fellow Americans: Please pick your spouses carefully. Wives: Please stay 1/2 way attractive to your husbands and not grow an @$$ half the size of a couch. Men: Please love your wife as Christ loves the church and not $cr3w the secretary, even if your wife blew up to 1/2 the size of your couch; hurt feelings by a Jenny Craig subscription is much better than injured children via divorce. Most of America's ills today result in the break up of families. This has become crazy in America!
How do you enforce this?
Woman killed in text messaging accident
The title is misleading, it’s not an accident when the driver was texting.
These toys while driving without a hands-free device and especially texting are for idiots; trying to tell the world how important they are running their mouth. I have spent a lot of time traveling in California driving my SUV and can see so many people with the phone jammed up against their ear or texting while driving. What is worse, about every 4th or 5th car I pass or passes me, someone talking on the phone or texting without a hands-free device. Now, if I can see so many people doing this, how is it that the Police, Sheriff or Highway Patrol doesn’t have a clue? This should be treated/handled in the same manner as driving under the influence (DUI)!
So one driver was distracted by text messaging, what was distracting the other driver that she didn’t get out of the way?
With this happening so much please parents let your children know a 30 second text while driving can kill someone be safe not sorry..pray for the family
young folks don’t talk anymore, they all text.....and the cellular folks hate it....they want airtime
i rarely text but i do drive 150/day average to check on my properties
i try to only text if i have to in thin traffic
my biggest issue is looking up numbers or saving them
Nashville is a not text while driving town ...whatever
sorry for the girl...most accidents are just that....not paying attention...reaching for something...daydreaming...cd player etc....wild kid...you name it
or booze or dope
I honestly wish they would install cell phone blocks that would not allow the phones to work while the key was in the ignition. I don’t know how many times we’ve almost been hit by someone looking down, you know they are texting and not paying any attention to what they are doing!