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British Lord to Be Prosecuted for Causing Fatal Accident by Texting


Lord Ahmed, a Labour party member in the British House of Lords, will be prosecuted for causing a fatal accident last year, allegedly while texting, Textually.org notes.

On Christmas of last year, Ahmed called paramedics on his cell phone shortly after the wreck in which the other driver died immediately. Authorities later discovered that a text message had been sent from that same cell phone, just prior to accident.

As 'texting while driving' becomes increasingly common, the news of this trial comes at a time rife with stories of text-message-induced traffic accidents, including a texting teen who was struck by a train last year, and the implementation of anti-texting laws by federal and state governments. [From: Textually.org]

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