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This is to the dumb twat that crashed her car and flipped it while texting on her phone. WTF were you thinking! The good side is that she didn’t take someone else out with her. Hopefully you won’t be able to purchase another car or afford insurance in the near future.
—Non-Text Driver
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
25 Comments
Darwin at work again, good riddance.
She’d be the type of person that would argue with a police officer that she’s too important to not take a call when driving, so she doesn’t deserve the ticket.
Whatever it was could not wait til she got home I guess. Probably an important status update on facebook.
“Darwin at work again, good riddance.”
If you had any comprehension of the english language you’d realise that she didn’t die… and hoping a young woman dies for texting while driving makes you a borderline psycho/fucking asshole.
hope that was an important text… it cost her thousands of $$$.
I can’t think of anything I would have to say that would cost that much and that couldn’t wait until I
a. reached my destination or
b. pulled over
Man people are dumb. Who the hell thinks it’s a safe practice to text while driving? Cell phones are bad enough, but with texting you have to actually take your eyes off the road and at least one hand off the wheel….smarten up because I have to drive on the same streets as you retards.
good i hope she never drives again,dumb ass.
There were already laws in place against careless driving, or driving without undue attention…a blanket ban on handheld communication devices was unecessary.
Texting is a poor and unsafe use of the device, yes…but the kneejerk ban is just more nanny-state over-reaction.
These legal bans are a result of lobbying from the insurance corporations world-wide, that muck is true…but not for the reasons you think. It was enough for most people to educate their children and themselves that safe use of these devices is crucial, there was going to be a few years while society transformed to that way of thinking. It was already happening when gov’t started to cave to the “anti’s”.
Guess what? Your teenagers are STILL gonna use the phone (you too)…but now, they’re “criminlals”, they’re “liabilities” and the insurance companies can refuse to pay out….
Nice work people.
You know, there IS such a word as “gray” in your black and white world.
Ideally all dangerous drivers would just perish in the accidents they cause so the rest of us won’t have to later on down the road.
Probably the first thing she did when she arrived at the hospital was post a status update on Facebook, and then all her friends responded saying “OMG Ashlee! R U OK? Im hre 4 U Gurl!”
The text probably read, “im on my way n my car to tha ditch O NO!!!”
baD mR fRosTy :
this is definitely the reason. i bet someone could run a red light and t-bone you but if witnesses said you were on the phone your insurance company would anally shaft your life/insurance rates
I’ve heard of cases where people were talking on their cell phones while driving, crossed the centre line on 100 series highways and ended up in head on collisions where they, or the other people they hit have died. Is that call REALLY that important? Is it REALLY too hard to pull the fuck over or stick a bluetooth device in your ear (as douchey as those things DO look)?
Almost as bad than talking on cell phones is people eating or (non-alcoholic) drinking while driving. I’m sure we’ve all seen people (not being sexist here…) doing their makeup or fixing their hair while driving too.
What’s worse, I ask: eating a sandwich, drinking a coffee, and smoking a cigarette while talking to your three friends in the car and listening to loud music while driving with only an hour’s sleep after partying the night before (but no alcohol left in your system), or driving while talking on a cell phone? One is illegal, the other one may be but is not explicitly illegal.
Apparently hands free headsets are just as dangerous as hand-held phones PK. Distracted is still distracted. At least when you are talking to someone else who is actually in the car with you, they are also present to alert you to dangers that you might arise due to inattention.
Frosty, if there are laws in place that cover dangerous driving without specifically identifying cells phones then those cell phone users are already “criminals” and “liabilities”. I would argue that even with a law people are still not getting the message that these things are dangerous distractions so I don’t know that more time would have solved anything. I agree that the previous laws were probably sufficient to act as a deterrent if they were enforced, but how many people were getting ticketed before the cell phone laws passed? Not as many as now that the police have some legal teeth to deter such stupidity. We wouldn’t need so many “nanny state” laws if people used more of that common sense we keep talking about. For the record, I’m not a fan of making laws about everything because they tend to remove judgement and reason from the law enforcement process. I just wish people in general would use more judgement and reason in their everyday lives as well. Seriously…texting while driving ?!?
Q, both should be discouraged and people should be fined if caught. The other thing to consider is how frequent cell phone use is compared to any one of those other factors. If you looked at the statistics and ranked the type of distraction as a percent of all accidents due to distraction where do you think cell phones would rank? My guess would be near the top…right around driving while sleepy. The problem with these laws is enforceability. It’s easy to see a driver on the phone and also easy to prove they were using it by their phone records. It’s more difficult to prove that a person was driving while sleepy.
QPMZ, I’ve always believed that if you can’t talk on a handset, a ‘borg’ implants not going to be any better. But what do I know !?!
I do know that personally flipping open my phone when its ringing while driving (when it used to be legal…of course) wasn’t all that distracting, right up there with taking my coffee out of the cup holder & having a drink !
But looking for numbers, or trying to dial a number while driving was definately much more…problematic , in that you have to divert your attention from driving to reading & dialing.
Texting while driving sounds even more like someone looking to die & or kill someone !
To hear that it may have been a face crack fix…is really disturbing !
Facebook is a serious addiction for many people. Thankfully, I only have my mom on Facebook, so I’m OK.
Good point with the frequency and enforceability comment, Miles. I often wondered that about the “smoking in cars with children.” Would they ask the kid for ID if they thought they were under 19? I guess it’s all up to the police officer’s discretion and good judgement with these things and, if it has to go any further, everyone’s favourite: lawyers!
I’ll friend you Q…and your mom. Especially your mom.
Ha ha, OK, but you have to become her neighbour on “FarmVille.”
Oh no…I can’t get caught up in that mess…I’m a recovering time-wasting-game-aholic.
HAHA this is not a bitch – this is awesome – only the dummy texting got wreaked – really really awesome I hope the fuck that text was important haha I so like this – this should be in the love section – under the title _” Love the way idiots get payed back “
haha qmpz i loved that post about the facebook status update i roared !!!!T- bone steak for you on that one lmao !!!
The next time someone decides to text and crash into me, I’m taking the law into my own hands. Nuff said!
Not if you’re dead. ZING!