Please STOP Texting and Selfies While Driving
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^ oh so true. There are so many you tubes, so sad the bride to be, who just had to get a selfie on the way to her bridal shower...dead. It they taught young children to shame their parents into not texting, I think that might work too! My girlfriend got hit by a driver who drifted into her lane. It spun her car into the guard rail and totaled the car!! When her car started spinning, she saw the guy who hit her car, just drive off!!! What a jerk!
Luckily she was just scraped and bruised...
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And some people are beyond idiots. They text while driving, get into accidents & yet they continue with the same stupidity over & over. It's a shame that cell phones don't automatically shut down when people are driving.
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GYPSYGIRL:
And some people are beyond idiots. They text while driving, get into accidents & yet they continue with the same stupidity over & over. It's a shame that cell phones don't automatically shut down when people are driving.
Agreed!
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I remember a little over 10 years ago when everyone was emailing pics and stuff a lot back and forth before social media sites blossomed. There was one that went around concerning texting while driving. It showed a picture of a heavy set man who had run into the front of a truck tractor. They were pulling his severed upper torso out of the wreckage and you could see his spinal cord dangling down.
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SurSteven:
I remember a little over 10 years ago when everyone was emailing pics and stuff a lot back and forth before social media sites blossomed. There was one that went around concerning texting while driving. It showed a picture of a heavy set man who had run into the front of a truck tractor. They were pulling his severed upper torso out of the wreckage and you could see his spinal cord dangling down.
Thanks for that visual. I won't sleep tonight.
P.S. I have NEVER texted while driving.
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There are probably tons of photos like that... Maybe they should show them...do you think it would affect more people to stop? My pet peeve now is the texters at red lights...the light turns green they don't notice until it's just about to turn red, then they're the only one through the intersection!!!
almost was late to work because of them!! They should have something that makes your phone turn off when you're in a vehicle. The technology is there. If you watch people getting off a bus or a train these days, they immediately pull out their phone to check it, and just stand there... blocking the other people exiting!!!
: Or people driving on a highway whose speed is 50 MPH and they are driving 35!!! Hello people!!! Pull over, you are causing a travel backup!!!
: How to handle massive populations...develop text phones!!!
texting while driving
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love2travel:
There are probably tons of photos like that... Maybe they should show them...do you think it would affect more people to stop? My pet peeve now is the texters at red lights...the light turns green they don't notice until it's just about to turn red, then they're the only one through the intersection!!!
almost was late to work because of them!! They should have something that makes your phone turn off when you're in a vehicle. The technology is there. If you watch people getting off a bus or a train these days, they immediately pull out their phone to check it, and just stand there... blocking the other people exiting!!!
: Or people driving on a highway whose speed is 50 MPH and they are driving 35!!! Hello people!!! Pull over, you are causing a travel backup!!!
: How to handle massive populations...develop text phones!!!
texting while driving
The red light texters are the pits! The light turns green & the idiots are still texting! Blow the horn at them & some of them are so spiteful, they refuse to budge!
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SurSteven:
There are more and more stories everyday and everywhere about deadly and disabling accidents because of these dangerous practices. My brother was up Friday and told me about a girl passing a car near where he lives while texting. She hit another car head on and killed 2 young children. 4 teenagers were using that "speed app" and ran into a tanker truck full of oil or fuel of some sort and they all burned to death. There was a news story on the other night where a young woman was taking a selfie and crashed, and then took another one of herself while being rolled to the ambulance. INSANE!!!
I agree - I have to admit I did it several times until I ran off the road (fortunately there was nothing there to hit)....And take it from me, that kind of close call is an instant cure for the 'drive and text' crowd
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And it's beyond annoying not to mention very selfish, when the light turns green & the twit in front of you is STILL texting & refuses to budge, even when you blast the horn at them. And sometimes there isn't any safe way to go around them either.
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I heard that accidents relative to this problem are up 40 to 50% over last year.
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Was late to work, took a route with a lot of lights... Can't tell you how many times the light turned Green, and the lead car must have been busy texting...Making everyone else wait in line!! Finally someone honked, and the texter was the only one to make it through the light
grrrr there needs to be an invention that you can't text unless the engine of your car is turned off!! A way to save lives really!
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I'm speeding all the time, there's no way I can text!!!
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Enter the POKEMON factor!!!
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Road Rage...Another Factor Concerning Accidents According to what I heard this morning... 56% of fatal vehicle accidents are a spin off of road rage. Men aged 19 to 39 are 3 times more likely to be involved.
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SurSteven:
Road Rage...Another Factor Concerning Accidents According to what I heard this morning... 56% of fatal vehicle accidents are a spin off of road rage. Men aged 19 to 39 are 3 times more likely to be involved.
Road rage is very common here in San Antonio, it reminds me of LA!!!
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Pokemon Go should loom big in the Darwin Awards this year
So far, people are walking into nuclear power plants, walking off cliffs, driving their cars into trees, walking into other people...sounds like a fun game. Hope I don't meet any of them on the road, in their cars!
that's the first week... http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/07/14/death-by-pokemon-public-safety-fears-mount-as-pokemon-go-craze-continues.html Seriously?
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love2travel:
Pokemon Go should loom big in the Darwin Awards this year
So far, people are walking into nuclear power plants, walking off cliffs, driving their cars into trees, walking into other people...sounds like a fun game. Hope I don't meet any of them on the road, in their cars!
that's the first week... http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/07/14/death-by-pokemon-public-safety-fears-mount-as-pokemon-go-craze-continues.html Seriously?
Hi love2travel! It could have been worse, they could have been like the late Keith Moon and drove their cars into swimming pools!
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Pokemon Go! also has a lot of loons not paying attention to driving. Things are really getting worse & worse.
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GYPSYGIRL:
Pokemon Go! also has a lot of loons not paying attention to driving. Things are really getting worse & worse.
So that's why there's a lot of car accidents here in San Antonio!!!!
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Insanity. Pure insanity.