Tragedy While Text Messaging
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There is legislation in some states, like New Jersey, that it is illegal to text message while driving. One wonders if similar legislation would have helped in the United Kingdom:
“A young bank worker who caused a fatal accident by sending a text message on her mobile phone while driving at 70mph on a rainy night was jailed yesterday for four years.
Rachel Begg, 19, who hoped to become an accountant, used her phone 9 times during a 15-minute journey before ploughing into the back of a car driven by a 64-year-old grandmother.”
link: Woman killed by teenage driver who was sending text messages at 70mph
It is tragic. There is no legislation for common sense.
Catherine Forsythe
[tags]cell phones, text messaging, legislation, tragedy, driving[/tags]
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marc klink
July 23rd, 2007
at 6:14pm
As I’ve said before, natural selection is taking too long.
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