[tallrick]

I was involved in an accident years back because some idiot dropped a cigarrette on his lap and when it was burning his leg, lost control of his car and caused a multi-car accident on the 836. I swerved off the road and remember ending up in the mud by some Australian pines. Another oddball situation was where a couple was kissing and not paying attention to the road on I-75 and ended up causing an accident. I remember this because I saw them making out and on the way back saw the same car along with others on the side of the road and a big traffic tie-up. My concern about laws being passed is that they morph into something nobody ever intended. I may be worrying for nothing, as in our lifetime driving will become obsolete.

[PG77]

Cell phones while driving should be banned for everyone and not just teens

[macguy]

Originally Posted by tallrick

I was involved in an accident years back because some idiot dropped a cigarrette on his lap and when it was burning his leg, lost control of his car and caused a multi-car accident on the 836. I swerved off the road and remember ending up in the mud by some Australian pines. Another oddball situation was where a couple was kissing and not paying attention to the road on I-75 and ended up causing an accident. I remember this because I saw them making out and on the way back saw the same car along with others on the side of the road and a big traffic tie-up. My concern about laws being passed is that they morph into something nobody ever intended. I may be worrying for nothing, as in our lifetime driving will become obsolete.

Driving will become obsolete???

[littlelou]

My girlfriend and her husband were on the way home from a vacation to Vegas and were 3 blocks from home when BAM they were hit by a ding-bat bozo backing out of her driveway on her cell and she was going fast enough she drove over the hood of their car crushing the front end. this was on a residential street, with speed bumps and my friends were going about 25 thank god! she:

A. never asked if they were all right
B. wouldn't get off the cell...calling everybody to tell them she was going to be late to "the club" until the officer TOLD her to hang up the phone.
C. pulled the SUV she was driving back into the driveway and away from the scene.

I know certain counties in Georgia have banned them and it's being discussed here in North Carolina. It should be nationwide...no cell phones, even handsfree, by the drivers.

too big of a distraction.

[macguy]

Originally Posted by littlelou

My girlfriend and her husband were on the way home from a vacation to Vegas and were 3 blocks from home when BAM they were hit by a ding-bat bozo backing out of her driveway on her cell and she was going fast enough she drove over the hood of their car crushing the front end. this was on a residential street, with speed bumps and my friends were going about 25 thank god! she:

A. never asked if they were all right
B. wouldn't get off the cell...calling everybody to tell them she was going to be late to "the club" until the officer TOLD her to hang up the phone.
C. pulled the SUV she was driving back into the driveway and away from the scene.

I know certain counties in Georgia have banned them and it's being discussed here in North Carolina. It should be nationwide...no cell phones, even handsfree, by the drivers.

too big of a distraction.

Not even hands free? How about no radio and no passengers as well. We all know cell phones are a problem but you have to be practical. Cell phones by the way have saved more lives then any other piece of technology including medical. They just need to be used more responsibly, thats all.