[Smokin' Joe]

If you want to talk on your cell phone while driving in your car, it's your business.

No problem, so long as anyone involved in a fatality accident while talking on the phone is executed on the spot.

Around here, A blonde in a SUV yakking on the phone is just an accident that has not found a location.

[Smokin' Joe]

“Anyone” should be “any driver who caused the fatal wreck while yakkking on the phone.

[CSM]

“No problem, so long as anyone involved in a fatality accident while talking on the phone is executed on the spot.”

I know that your proposed punishment is said in jest, that said why would you only want to punish the drivers who cause a car wreck while talking on a cell phone?

I believe that the root cause of the horrible driving we see today is that the only “bad driving” ever discussed is “drunk” driving. People now figure that as long as they aren’t “drunk” then they can not drive poorly.

I would like to see ALL drivers that cause damage to persons or property held equally accountable. A person is no less dead if they get killed by a “drunk” driver, a cell phone using driver or a general speeder. Yet the punishment for the killing is different for each of those drivers. In fact, a “drunk” driver can be punished very severely without causing any damage to persons or property, yet a texter can get off when committing vehicular manslaughter.

If all dangerous driving was held to the same standard, we might end up having a safer driving environment.

[Sudetenland]

Agreed! One addition, if you choose to drive while using a cell phone and are involved in an accident, you should automatically be assumed to be in the wrong and liable unless there is undeniable evidence to the contrary.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“No problem, so long as anyone involved in a fatality accident while talking on the phone is executed on the spot.”

The only problem with that idea: how many people in accidents will ADMIT they were talking on the phone?