Texting and Driving Equated to Drunk Driving
The most surprising takeaway from the poll, however, is that, though 89 percent of those polled believe texting and driving is a crime, 57 percent fessed up to doing it themselves.
This past May, Washington became the first state to put a ban on texting and driving, while California, Florida and New York don't appear to be too far behind.
Last month, we reported on two horrific car crashes linked to text messaging. The first, in upstate New York, caused the death of five young girls, including the driver who was believed to be texting at the time of the accident. The second was in Great Britain, where a 19-year-old girl was texting while driving when she lost control of her vehicle and killed a 64-year-old grandmother. In the U.K. case, the young driver was sentenced to four years in prison.
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mrdickieweed @ Aug 8th 2007 10:14PM
I like to text AND drive drunk...
jimmyp24588 @ Aug 9th 2007 7:30AM
mrdickieweed, you are surely an idiot.
ryan @ Aug 9th 2007 4:57PM
texting!! lookin down and punching in 1 # is bad enough to get ya killed, much less 10!!! when i got my license had to have both hands on wheel!! save some lifes, band holding a phone in automobiles.
Kelley @ Aug 10th 2007 1:12AM
.....and that's why they call you MRDICKIEWEED!!!
I hope none of my loved ones are ever on the road at the same time you are!
sinnkill @ Aug 11th 2007 11:27AM
i like driving with a beer in one hand texting with the other hand and steering with my knee
samysoasa @ Aug 11th 2007 4:11PM
It's not as dangers as driving drunk but it's have to be illegal....
See what drunk drivers are doing and obviously it's a bit more dangerous
http://www.wwwpd.org/?p=58
apple @ Sep 26th 2007 2:12AM
mrdickieweed and sinkill,
Just think the next time some one you love gets in a car and ends up dead because of someone who thinks like you. Would you still think having a beer in one hand and texting with the other is cool?
Tom Knaack @ Nov 24th 2007 1:43PM
Looking forward to hearing about a woman that had her eyeliner brush shoved through her eye socket.
mojado @ Nov 27th 2007 4:21PM
Hey How Do You Drink Drive And Text I Havent Mastered That Yet Any Advice!
Mrs. Black @ Feb 1st 2008 11:36PM
it's all fun and games till someone that means more to you than anything in this world dies and you have to go to the hospital and see all the blood pouring out of their body a body of a beautiful person that worked so hard, gave to others when he himself did without asking anyone for help bought his own vehicles his own home his own everything and asked noone for nothing but gave so much to anyone and everyone who would ask of him. Yea you fools who this is all funny and a joke when that happens to someone that you really care about with everything in you. It will be real funny then .Wait till you have to bury your son the day after Christmas, yea it will be really funny then!This is for my son. MSB R.I.P.
Love momma