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How is looking down to check an incoming call any different than texting? In both cases, you take your eyes off the road. It's completely arbitrary to say that if you look down for more than x seconds, it becomes dangerous. No, it's dangerous whenever you're not paying attention when you control a moving motor vehicle.
By this logic, better start ticketing people for adjusting the climate controls, radio, looking at the dash, looking in your mirrors... etc.
To treat this incident so lightly simply because they were "just cows" is OUTRAGEOUS.
I wonder if these cavalier reactions will change if and/or when Miss Twit plows into a group of School Kids or a group of Seniors? How many feeble excuses will her Empty Headed "Enabling" Father respond with then?
Looks like they are dairy cows so they probably walk them across the road and back twice a day for milking. If the road is becoming more congested with traffic, they really need to rethink their milking strategy. It is dangerous for all involved, including the cows. Could possibly put an underpass beneath the road for them to pass through, or move the milking quarters. Cows crossing he road used to be quite common where farms are split by roads, but people learn the hard way that it is not the wisest thing to do. Probably have been doing it this way forever and the traffic didn't exist when it started. At a minimum, they need flashing lights. Hopefully, they don't do this in the morning in the dark.
Wish the link would have said what time of the day this happened. Was it during daylight hours or after dark? If during daylight hours, HOW DO YOU NOT SEE COWS ON THE ROAD?
Other thing not being asked in the story is why was the farmer's cows on the road? In some communities, a farmer can be held responsible (varies from community to community) for their livestock getting onto public roads.
And in many other farming/ranching communities, livestock has the right-of-way.
LOL, add one letter to her last name and the driver becomes "Daisy Cowhit".
Add one more letter, 's' and that's what she should be shoveling for the next year as part of paying off damages via creative 'sentencing'. It would be fun to be a judge for case like this
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