No text messaging while driving EVER!!!
12:37, 23 May 2009
.. Posted in Personal.. Link
It's the weekend. A HOLIDAY weekend in the USA. And, so, time for a personal blog:
If you send and read text messages while driving, then let me just say, I hate you.
Text messaging has been blamed for a number of recent high profile accidents, including a train crash in the Los Angeles area last September in which 25 people were killed, and a Boston trolley crash this month in which almost 50 people were injured. According to a 2007 report by SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, text messaging while driving leads the list as the biggest distraction while driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported in 2006 that distracted drivers, including cell phone users, account for almost 80% of all crashes and 65% of near-crashes in the United States.
And as I sit at a stop light, in my beautiful new Honda Fit, the first new car I have ever owned in my life, and watch you in my rear view window about to rear end me as you read or write a text message, I wonder, if you hit me, if it will even make a difference in your driving habits.
There is NO excuse for sending and reading text messages while driving. None. Zilch. Nada. NEVER. You may have done it hundreds, even thousands of times and not yet killed or hurt someone, but you will. It's only a matter of time.
