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Solve : Texting and Driving Contributed to 6K Deaths in 2008?

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Texting and Driving Contributed to 6K Deaths in 2008
09.30.09
by Chloe Albanesius

Distracted drivers – including those sending and reading text messages from behind the wheel – caused the deaths of nearly 6,000 people in 2008, according to Wednesday data from the Department of TRANSPORTATION.

"Every single time someone takes their eyes or their focus off the ROAD - even for just a few seconds - they PUT their lives and the lives of others in danger," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at the opening of a two-day D.C. summit on distracted driving. "Distracted driving is unsafe, irresponsible and in a split second, its consequences can be devastating."

CLICK on link for full story.People do the dumbest things behind the wheel. I've SEEN people reading a FREAKING BOOK while they drive on the highway...

People who do **** like text behind the FREAKING WEEL make me mad. I have just got my permit like 3 weeks ago and I have had some experiences with idiots like that, including one crash from behind (he messed up my freaking bumper and just drove off with his phone still in his hand texting like the idiot he is). err!!I like to follow them and then key their car.I think I am going to quit driving all together, it’s just too dangerous with today drivers.I envy the people who live in situations where they don't have to have a car.In Ireland it is illegal to hold a phone while driving.I got rear ended the other day by a man who was texting, I was stopped at a red stop light when all of sudden..BOOM! At least he had insurance and I got everything paid for but the the whole insurance claim process is a *****!Let them clear the gene pool and keep texting i say...Quote from: patio on October 12, 2009, 02:10:22 PM
Let them clear the gene pool and keep texting i say...

unfortunately it will not simply be them that will be removed, but the people they crash into in some cases.True.
I did not consider that...sorry.If people always used common sense you wouldn't have the Darwin Awards.In showing my contempt for people ridiculous enough to actually do this i posted hastily and did not consider the innocent victims...

For this i apologise.

patio.It is sometimes difficult, when faced with the results of bad choices and stupidity, to remember that all who become involved did not make those choices or display the stupidity.


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