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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: namvet on March 03, 2011, 07:14:47 PM
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im posting this cause 2 kids died here this week in auto accidents. including 1 that was texting. its become a lethal habit for teens these days. this is a dramatization vid from the UK. so if your kids text or you know someone who does show them this. might save their lives. its horrible
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E[/youtube]
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We've lost people here from texting and driving. Just don't.
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I've seen enough stories in the news. Put the phone down.
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Unless I'm on the open freeway and traffic is light, I don't even use the phone. Besides, I usually have my stereo cranked and am listening to it. I drive with purpose. It's not something that's secondary to anything else.
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Texting and driving is DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So sad to die young for a stupid fad. We all managed to exist for millenia without cell phones or texting capabilities. No use being popular if you're dead. :bawl:
RIP, children. You deserved better, as did your families.
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Very powerful ad, they should show something like that here but they wouldn't because God forbid we show something so graphic.
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As far as I'm concerned, a cell phone in a moving vehicle is one of the most evil things ever put on Earth to tempt mankind with.
Doesn't matter to me if you're texting or just talking on the damned thing, your attention isn't on your driving, where you're going or what's going on around you. There is NOTHING that'll double the powder and shorten the fuse on my temper while I'm driving as quick as looking through a rear vehicle window and seeing another idiot either with their ear pinned to their shoulder, or their thumb moving on the cell phone buttons like they've got the palsy or something.
When I sit down in the driver's seat, usually the first thing I do - before putting the keys in the ignition, or strapping on the seat belt - is thumb the ringer volume on the cell phone down to SILENT (if it's on vibrate, I can still hear/feel it) and toss it in the damned glove box. My wife has learned not to call me when she knows that I'm driving, and I'm slowly but surely training the rest of my extended family by simply not answering the damned thing when I'm driving. The only reason the cell phone is in the car with me is so that it can be used at either end of my traveling, or so that I can summon rescue services when some twit is more focused on his iPhone than the jerk that just cut him off.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebhWD6ljZs[/youtube]
http://511contracosta.org/texting-while-driving-1-6-million-accidents-in-us-a-year/
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Unfortunately this is happening constantly and the kids just don't learn. I have two daughters and a stepson ages 11,12 and 14. Of course they aren't driving yet but they are constantly texting. For a parent to hand the keys to their child as a newly minted driver has always been worrisome enough for previous generations, now we have the added peril of texting in the equation, like we needed more to worry about.
Here is one from my area a few years ago, five girls dead. Later investigation revealed that the driver was indeed texting at the time of the accident.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287299,00.html
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It's very sad. When I was living in Phoenix, some girl was texting and driving down the highway, she hit and killed a woman on her way home from work. The teen girl survived while this innocent woman passed away over some dumb LOLZ text that couldn't wait until the girl was parked.
I use my phone at a red light with a long line, because I'll be sitting through a few rounds... but that's it.
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Cell gets turned on silent and tossed in my purse when the key hits the ignition. End of Story.
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Texting and Driving should carry the same penalties as DUI. That would certainly catch peoples attention. In most states that DO have a law forbidding it you can only be cited IF you are cited for another violation. Even then it is only $25-50 so in other words people aren't going to give a shit. To me most state don't take the "It's a privilege to drive. Not a RIGHT" saying to seriously. Most of the time a person serves the suspension term, and then just fills out some paperwork at the DMV to get their license back. Not even having to take another driving test to prove they have corrected the error of their ways.
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I've seen that video, the UK does make good ads like that.
I've almost been hit by drivers on cell phones more times then I can count. I've almost hit them several times. The worst was when I came over a hill and someone was in both lanes not looking, I had to brake fast and swerve and just missed them. I had a kid in the car too. I went back and gave them a piece of my mind and good their plate number and reported it.
I can't stand phones in cars, the topic makes me so angry. It's truly sad so many people die from this, a lot of good people too.
I know so many people who do this very thing.
In the end people need to think, "is a text worth a life?"
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebhWD6ljZs[/youtube]
http://511contracosta.org/texting-while-driving-1-6-million-accidents-in-us-a-year/
That trooper's mustache was HORRIBLE!
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I cried through some of those. I have a 17 year old niece, who is a textaholic. I have begged her topromise me that she will never text while driving. They should show these movies in drivers ed and in high schools.
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It's very sad. When I was living in Phoenix, some girl was texting and driving down the highway, she hit and killed a woman on her way home from work. The teen girl survived while this innocent woman passed away over some dumb LOLZ text that couldn't wait until the girl was parked.
I use my phone at a red light with a long line, because I'll be sitting through a few rounds... but that's it.
I think that was in the news recently. Didn't the girl get a fairly sentence? If it's the one I'm thinking about, the girl made some callous remark about the woman being to old to move out of the way.
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As far as I'm concerned, a cell phone in a moving vehicle is one of the most evil things ever put on Earth to tempt mankind with.
Doesn't matter to me if you're texting or just talking on the damned thing, your attention isn't on your driving, where you're going or what's going on around you. There is NOTHING that'll double the powder and shorten the fuse on my temper while I'm driving as quick as looking through a rear vehicle window and seeing another idiot either with their ear pinned to their shoulder, or their thumb moving on the cell phone buttons like they've got the palsy or something.
When I sit down in the driver's seat, usually the first thing I do - before putting the keys in the ignition, or strapping on the seat belt - is thumb the ringer volume on the cell phone down to SILENT (if it's on vibrate, I can still hear/feel it) and toss it in the damned glove box. My wife has learned not to call me when she knows that I'm driving, and I'm slowly but surely training the rest of my extended family by simply not answering the damned thing when I'm driving. The only reason the cell phone is in the car with me is so that it can be used at either end of my traveling, or so that I can summon rescue services when some twit is more focused on his iPhone than the jerk that just cut him off.
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The table below shows the states that have cellphone laws, whether they specifically ban text messaging, and whether they are enforced as primary or secondary laws. Under secondary laws, an officer must have some other reason to stop a vehicle before citing a driver for using a cellphone. Laws without this restriction are called primary.
http://www.iihs.org/laws/cellphonelaws.aspx
this is for drivers. but, pedestrians have the same problem for walking into crossing zones while using phones/texters as well. totally distracted
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I think that was in the news recently. Didn't the girl get a fairly sentence? If it's the one I'm thinking about, the girl made some callous remark about the woman being to old to move out of the way.
Must be a different accident. The woman she killed was in her 30's, recently married, I believe.
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RB and I went over to Franklin TN(outside of Nashville) on Wednesday morn, and left yesterday just in time to hit rush hour traffic. Talk about a bunch of drivers who got their driver's licenses out of Cracker Jack boxes!!!
I could not believe how many people we saw texting on our way home last night!! It was dark, so it was pretty easy to see the lit up phone screens.
We also were over in Murfreesboro where MTSU is, to see her son. College kids, walking on campus, with both ears attached to wires, and texting....totally oblivious to cars coming at them!!! Takes "safe in a crosswalk" to a whole new meaning.
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I am in complete agreement. TWD laws should be as tough as the drunk driving ones. Believe me, NYS would love to suck up that cash. Our DWI fines go on for 3 years, and you wouldn't believe the money. Right now, talking on a cell phone is a $285 fine. I don't know about texting. I'm not a big government type, but this is getting ridiculous, and too many people are dying.
I do not answer the phone when driving. I didn't even like the hands-free one in my last car. I felt like I wasn't 100% on my game. I'd just say "gotta go" and hang up.
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I'm almost to the point where I think that if a state trooper or a county mountie can spot you on the cell phone while the vehicle is moving, it should be treated with all the weight of law as the "Open Container" laws in most states.