Woman texting in car kills 24 yr old. What a f***ing c***

[George & Bill]

its not the chnaging the cd thats hard its finding the right one thats difficult. seraching through my cd's is way harder then texting.

she was sending 20? she being silly then.


dave

Texting is ok because it's only as distracting as searching through your badly organised CDs - you're a fucking moron.

If you died tomorrow the world would be a better place.

 

[JoMo1953]

As of today texting while driving is illegal in the State of California...mind you talking on a cell phone without "hands-free" has been illegal since July of 2007 Why the idiots in our state legislature didn't include texting in the law originally is beyond comprehension (but we are dealing with the Terminator and his band of merry idiots)

And of course the enforcement of the law is almost impossible, people only get cited when they have been in an accident and/or are stopped for speeding and the police can visually see them talking or texting.

Personally I rarely turn my cell phone on, do not know the number to my cell phone, and never give the number out to anybody.....the car is the one place I am assured peace and quiet

 

[Batboy]

I would have thought that texting whilst driving is far more dangerous than talking on the phone as your eyes are being taken off the road.

The situation with talking on the phone is more complex. I have a guy at work that when he is talking on the phone in the office is so entrenched that it is almost impossible to interrupt him to get his attention, whereas other people are different - some can talk on the phone whilst doing other tasks.

Hopefully the judge can tell her - fck off 2 prisn u stpd cnt! and then she may get the message..

 

[Batboy]

Rubbish, you take your eyes off the road all the time, spedo, instrument pannel, petrol, rear view mirror, side mirrors (ok, so that's just bits of the road). Glances at passengers. All acceptable. Staring off into space is really stuipd but glancing away is safe.

I understand what you are trying to say however it is a weak argument. The huge difference is the fact that texting/communication via a phone is far more distracting, it is the unexpected- you receive a message you will not know its content/context until you read it and your mind processes the content, thus taking your thoughts/awareness away for a longer time than say from simply inserting a cd where your mind may have adjusted to undertake the task that and the fact the cd player doesn't normally ask you questions/talk to you!

I would have thought that a better example would be scrolling through an ipod/iphone/mp3 to find a playlist/track. Almost the same as texting - so should be considered unsafe too?

 

[Upchuck]

She got 21 months

from BBC

Texting death crash woman jailed

A motorist who sent and received more than 20 text messages before she crashed into another car killing its driver has been jailed for 21 months.

Philippa Curtis, 21, from Suffolk, was texting before she hit the back of a stationary car at 70mph on the A40 near Wheatley in Oxfordshire.

Victoria McBryde, from Northamptonshire was dealing with a burst tyre was killed in the crash in November 2007.

Curtis, of Bury St Edmunds, was also given a three-year driving ban.

Judge Julian Hall said it had been "folly and madness" to use a phone while driving and it had been "disastrous" for Curtis, Ms McBryde and her family.

Woman 'hyper'

Curtis, who injured her arm in the crash, told Oxford Crown Court she felt there were times when using a phone while driving was acceptable.

During the trial the defendant, a waitress, said she had been "hyper" as she set off on her two-hour journey on 20 November, 2007.

She had made various calls and sent text messages to a number of friends using predictive text.

Shortly after making a call, her car hit Ms McBryde's parked Peugeot 106, then spun into oncoming traffic, hitting two more vehicles.

Ms McBryde, 24, from Northamptonshire, who had stopped to deal with a burst tyre, suffered a fatal brain injury in the crash.

Judge Hall said he hoped the case would send out a warning to other drivers not to use their phones when behind the wheel.

 

[kained&able]

21 months is that it?

If i ever want to kill someone i have decided im using a car rather then a knife.

dave

 

[nino_savatte]

Stories like this will not stop those who already text while driving. i can't count how many idiots I see on the roads using their phones while attempting to drive.

 

[kained&able]

is tht cos your other hand is being used for sending a txt.


dave

 

[SpookyFrank]

21 months is that it?

If i ever want to kill someone i have decided im using a car rather then a knife.

dave

Make sure you're rich as well.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

21 months is that it?

If i ever want to kill someone i have decided im using a car rather then a knife.

dave

Fuck the car, shoot them with an Uzi, just make sure you're texting at the time.

 

[laptop]

It may be more dangerous than not doing it but in my experience it can be done with acceptable levels of risk.

Stop.

The whole point is that you are not aware of how much of your attention is no longer on the road.











Not until what's left of a child comes through the windscreen and you think "where the fuck did she come from?"