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Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter
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Date: March 12, 2012 02:55PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 02:58PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:00PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:01PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:04PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:08PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:17PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:25PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:26PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:30PM
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Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: March 12, 2012 03:31PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 03:40PM
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Posted by: davester
Date: March 12, 2012 04:09PM
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(vikm)
I text...
...It's not different (for me personally) than changing the music that's playing in the car or adjusting the temp or whatever.
Re: Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: March 12, 2012 04:17PM
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RAMd®d
Both activities should have been treated as moving violations with convictions adding points to their driving record.
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Posted by: billb
Date: March 12, 2012 04:32PM
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(vikm)
It's not different (for me personally) than changing the music that's playing in the car or adjusting the temp or whatever.
Re: Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter
Posted by: Manlove
Date: March 12, 2012 04:36PM
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Posted by: mattkime
Date: March 12, 2012 04:48PM
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Posted by: mattkime
Date: March 12, 2012 04:49PM
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Manlove
My wife just got a $110 ticket for texting whilst stopped at a red light.
She didn't pull away in a timely fashion when the light turned green and a cop saw her and she was ticketed. Essentially, in terms of the danger involved, she could have been looking at a map, or doing any one of a 1000 other things that causes people to not pull away the instant a light turns green. Needless to say she will not be texting in a car again, unless she is pulled over with the engine turned off!
Re: Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter
Posted by: jdc
Date: March 12, 2012 04:59PM
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Posted by: Black
Date: March 12, 2012 04:59PM
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RAMd®d
In the city, I split lanes at stop lights and occasionally as I roll up along side a car, I'll see the driver hide his/her cellphone.
Re: Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: March 12, 2012 05:20PM
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Posted by: mattkime
Date: March 12, 2012 05:59PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 06:05PM
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Posted by: Manlove
Date: March 12, 2012 06:14PM
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jdc
Ouch...
A driver who caused a fatal traffic collision when she was text messaging behind the wheel on the freeway last year was sentenced today to five years in state prison.
She got off easy.
Re: Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter
Posted by: Manlove
Date: March 12, 2012 06:18PM
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RAMd®d
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turning a station, or upping the AC takes far less time than texting.
Agreed.
And it's my contention that it takes less higher (?!) brain activity to do those as opposed to texting.
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Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: March 12, 2012 06:26PM
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RAMd®d
In the city, I split lanes at stop lights and occasionally as I roll up along side a car, I'll see the driver hide his/her cellphone.
And I'm also hopelessly aware of what's going on inside people's cars. Most of the time I wish I wasn't able to see.
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Posted by: Michael
Date: March 12, 2012 06:36PM
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Posted by: Manlove
Date: March 12, 2012 06:44PM
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RAMd®d
In the city, I split lanes at stop lights and occasionally as I roll up along side a car, I'll see the driver hide his/her cellphone.
And I'm also hopelessly aware of what's going on inside people's cars. Most of the time I wish I wasn't able to see.
I walk my son to school & back every day, and we have to cross at a very busy intersection. So I'm teaching him how, even when you have the Walk signal, you have to make sure the approaching driver sees you and acknowledges you before you step off the curb. We watch drivers approaching the light as it's about to turn green, and it's downright frightening what we see a couple times a week. Maybe twice a week we miss the signal because somebody speeds right through, barely slowing to make the turn, often while chatting on the phone, or texting, or putting on makeup, or shaving, reading a newspaper. Or just not looking for pedestrians standing patiently at the corner trying to cross legally and safely.
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Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: March 12, 2012 07:03PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 08:23PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 08:25PM
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Posted by: rz
Date: March 12, 2012 08:28PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 10:57PM
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Date: March 12, 2012 11:01PM
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Date: March 13, 2012 09:20AM
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Posted by: M A V I C
Date: March 13, 2012 12:32PM
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rz
For those of you who admit to texting while driving, please explain to me what's so goddam important that it can't wait? Seriously.
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Posted by: SteveO
Date: March 13, 2012 02:11PM
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