intexticated.....

[adulation]

ugh my dad just sent me one of the worst emails ever!!!  i didn't really need to see this to know not to text while driving but i can't ignore it either.

Results of InTEXTicated Driving

 

Maybe you've been tempted. Sitting at the wheel in traffic, you hear the familiar beep of a text-message alert.

 

Maybe your boss wants the latest numbers from today's sales meeting, or a friend wants to set up a place to meet for drinks. Traffic is backed up and you know it would take less than a minute to type a response with your thumbs, so you do.

There is little risk here, you think. And then it happens ... the person in front of you stops more quickly than you expected and you crash into them.

During the claims process your insurance company starts checking your cell-phone communications in the run-up to the accident. Now you've just lost a claim and a heck of a lot of money, all because that text was oh-so important.  You may even end up seriously hurting yourself, others and maybe even death.

Read the story below and you will definitely change your way of thinking when it comes to Texting while Driving.  Remember that it only takes less than a second to have your entire life changed forever... is it worth it?  Could the response have waited? 

*NOTE ------ Some of the pictures may be too graphic for some viewers so please view at your own discretion------- *

 

Please view all the pictures and read this to the end.  Then pass it on to your friends.  You might just save a life!

The very real human consequences that can result from driving while 'InTEXTicated'.
 
An 18-year-old girl plowed directly into the rear of another vehicle.  She was going 70 mph.  She apparently never even saw them.  You see, she had been texting at the time.

You can see that she hit them dead-center with no attempt to slow or evade the collision.

She hit dead-center on her 2008 Yukon SUV as well.  She escaped unscathed.

There was no blowout, no wet road, no curve or hill or fog to limit visibility.  This girl clearly should have been able to see the traffic conditions at least a half mile ahead had she been looking and not texting.  She nearly killed a beautiful 3-year-old child?

Here's a personal look at the real human cost of texting while driving:
Griffin before the accident.

Griffen the day after 4 hours of surgery to repair multiple skull fractures.  He would surely have died or been severely disabled had they not been minutes away (by StarFlight helicopter) from Austin's world-class children's Dell Children's Medical Center and neurosurgeon Dr. Timothy George.

Day 4 - watching a movie on his Dad's iPhone.  
The swelling of his head will go away, but that scar from ear-to-ear will be with him forever.  

Feeling better.  Mmmmm - mac-n-cheese.  :-)

Day 5 - feeling much better.  My granddad bought me my very own iPod and loaded it with movies.  Life is good.

 

This morning.  All my tubes are finally out.  I'm going home today!
Note how much the swelling has improved in just three days.

It's almost unbelievable that it's been only five days since the accident that nearly claimed his life.  

All the medical experts involved expect him to make a full recovery.  
Pretty soon he'll be all healed up and back to normal - thank the Lord!
In only six weeks he'll be allowed to be just as active as any other 3-year-old.

Phone company records of text messages are irrefutable and accurate to the second; so it would be an easy matter to prove in court that a person was texting at the time of an accident.  As with drunken driving, a jail sentence (no matter the driver's age) will be mandatory whenever anyone is injured by an InTEXTicated driver. 

[annamarie221]

Feb. 23, 2009 at 10:34 PM

The pictures aren't working

[damira]

Feb. 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM

wow

[MrsClemons]

Feb. 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM

way to sad

[Kaelaasmom]

Feb. 23, 2009 at 11:14 PM

I am in tears...how can people be so stupid?

[adulation]

Feb. 23, 2009 at 11:22 PM

this makes me really nervous about teens and people my age - about my little sister.... i think we don't think about these things when we don't have kids...  after ssing this it's all i'm going to think about driving lila to the sitter tomorrow!

 

(Original Poster)

[calimomntx]

Feb. 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM

ahhh terrible, what happen to the 17?

[gaea920507]

Feb. 24, 2009 at 3:17 AM

Damn....and I am ALWAYS getting text messages while I'm driving, I wait till I'm out of my car......if my daughter is with me, I ask her who it's from.  If it's from the dh, I ask her to read it and text him back for me.  If it's from someone else, they can wait.

[eleasmommy]

Feb. 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM

omg i just have tears streaming from my eyes

it really pisses me off they don't pull people over for texting or talking while driving..

[MaryJane849]

Feb. 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM

When I was driving to work yesterday morning, I kept noticing the driver behind me would get real close and then back off, I started watching her in my mirror and she kept looking down in her lap and the first thing I thought was that she was texting some one. I needed to stop at the store and turned my blinker on way before the entrance to give her enough time to see that I was turning. When I got to the first turn entrance she was so close on me that I hit the gas to keep her from hitting me, and had to keep tapping my brakes to get her attention that I was turning in the next entrance and she still about ate my rear end. I was so mad I wanted to chase her down and rip her one. I believe she even had a baby/small child in the vehicle with her because there was a cloth hanging from the sun visor on the passenger side to block the sun, some people are just so ignorant about stuff like this.

Pay attention to what the person behind you is doing, this is not the first time that I have had to hit my gas to keep some one from rear ending me.

[ajerez]

Feb. 24, 2009 at 10:40 AM

I think the mother is actually a memeber here in cafemom. I'm sure she will be happy to see people are actually taking a stand against texting whie driving.