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I find texting (and hands free talking) while driving reprehensible. I wish people would realize they are not the only ones on the road and take a bit of responsibility for themselves & others on the roadways. When I drive, I realize that my actions behind the wheel effect other drivers and their families as well as my own. If everyone thought that way, I think we'd have a big decline in accidents.
This is very sobering. I have flat out refused to talk to my grown daughter while she is stuck in traffic in Atlanta either to or from work. I will send this to her. I think all people but especially TEENS need to be aware of the repercussions for texting while driving.
I was riding with a grown woman down the highway, 75 mph, when she started texting her daughter. We had just dropped our kids off at camp. I had so say "Are you texting and driving? Please don't do that." It scares me to think that an adult woman with 3 kids would think that's ok.
Obviously texting and driving is a NO-NO but how is talking to someone on the phone, especially with a hands free device, any different than talking to the person sitting in the passenger seat??
For some reason it is different. Maybe the fact that the person you're talking to in the other seat may notice you're too caught up in the conversation and as his/her life is also at stake, may remind you to pay attention and may also be looking out for what's going on ahead and so on. Plus you don't have to find their number to make a call, they're right there.
My BIL died earlier this year because a girl was on her phone and not paying attention to her driving. She's been charged with vehicular manslaughter as well as several other charges.
The very pathetic aspect of these texters and chatters -- not one of these texts or cell phone conversations was really of any big importance that it couldn't wait.
You see these bimbos out driving and playing with their cell phones -- but you know the conversations and texts they're having to make that they consider more important than someone's life, are just stupid and silly and never needed to be made.
The very pathetic aspect of these texters and chatters -- not one of these texts or cell phone conversations was really of any big importance that it couldn't wait.
That's a very good point.
Sad to think of a person loosing their life because someone just HAD to text the latest update of how their day is going.
My sympathies to Ivory's family. I cannot imagine what that's like.
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