On 23/06/2014 8:45 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 6/23/2014 6:29 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 6/22/2014 9:49 AM, wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:37:40 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>
>>>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>>
>>>>> Has anyone seen the Volkswagon texting experiment? They
>>>>> were showing a trailer of a car driving and suddenly
>>>>> everyone in the theater got a text. I think you can see
>>>>> it he
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.usatoday.com/videos/money...6/16/10325511/
>>>>
>>>> No I hadn't seen it. I bet that made a few people think!
>>>
>>> Yes, but were the kids watching the ad or were they texting when it
>>> aired ?
>>
>> That was the whole idea, they were watching then they got a
>> text and looked at their phone and in that instant the car
>> crashed.
>>
>> nancy
>>
> I think it was a brilliant way to insert a don't text & drive message. I
> do still wonder if they got the point. I really cannot fathom what is
> so friggin important that you have to read a text (or answer the phone)
> when you're driving.
>
> Jill
In Alberta the distracted driving law also covers eating (obviously not
candy and the like) and personal grooming at the wheel. A couple of
years ago a young woman was killed when she crossed the median and went
head-on into a gravel truck. She had been putting on her make-up.
Graham

On 6/23/2014 12:29 PM, graham wrote:
> On 23/06/2014 8:45 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 6/23/2014 6:29 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> On 6/22/2014 9:49 AM, wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:37:40 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>>
>>>>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone seen the Volkswagon texting experiment? They
>>>>>> were showing a trailer of a car driving and suddenly
>>>>>> everyone in the theater got a text. I think you can see
>>>>>> it he
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.usatoday.com/videos/money...6/16/10325511/
>>>>>
>>>>> No I hadn't seen it. I bet that made a few people think!
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but were the kids watching the ad or were they texting when it
>>>> aired ?
>>>
>>> That was the whole idea, they were watching then they got a
>>> text and looked at their phone and in that instant the car
>>> crashed.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>>
>> I think it was a brilliant way to insert a don't text & drive message. I
>> do still wonder if they got the point. I really cannot fathom what is
>> so friggin important that you have to read a text (or answer the phone)
>> when you're driving.
>>
>> Jill
> In Alberta the distracted driving law also covers eating (obviously not
> candy and the like) and personal grooming at the wheel. A couple of
> years ago a young woman was killed when she crossed the median and went
> head-on into a gravel truck. She had been putting on her make-up.
> Graham

I used to see that sort of thing when I was in my twenties. Mature
women (such as myself) aren't so terribly concerned about makeup. If
you wear makeup, get up a little earlier and put it on at home.
Lipstick need a touchup? Wait until you get where you're going. Makeup
isn't a matter of life and death... unless you want to be a very pretty
corpse.

Jill

On 2014-06-23 10:15 AM, Nancy Young wrote:

>> There was an real life (death) incident like that near here recently. It
>> happened in front of a friend's place. The guy had just been at a 4 way
>> stop intersection about 250 yards down the road and managed to veer
>> across the road and crashed head on into a water tank truck. Apparently
>> he had been texting at the time.
>
> His poor family. I wonder when I read about fatal accidents
> where someone suddenly drove into oncoming traffic. They
> don't say, but I think something took their eyes off the
> road.

There was an incident on the other side of the highway from my work
location where someone was killed at the wheel while on his cell phone.
Truck traffic was backed up at the border and the guy ran right into the
back of a stopped truck. The first person on the seen told the person on
the other end of the line what had just happened to his buddy.

About a year ago there was a fatal accident involving a woman coming
home from a midnight shift. Her husband said that she had just called to
say that she was on her way home.




> I'm pretty sure it's SOP to check to see if the driver was
> on the phone/texting at the time of a fatal crash.
>
> nancy
>