texting and driving

[jon f mn]

This was yesterday evening, the guy was messin with his phone and never looked my way. Sorry for the quality of the video, but I couldn't download it to my tablet because I didn't format the card before hand and it wipes 8t clean when you format it. So I had to video it with my phone off the dash cam screen.i didn't get a good look, but there were others in there with him.
close call

 

[Oliver in SC]

Glad you were watching the road and didn't get hurt. As a bike rider, this is my worst nightmare.

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

ah Jon you are just driving one of the slow "in my way" trucks! you can move or stop No problem! people have no idea the stress they inflict on truck drivers! that was close enough for sure, I have been there myself and worse when driving truck
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[BAnNC]

You did point out the error of his ways, didn't you? That's another reason I want an air horn. Herding idiots is a Full Time job on the road.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Did you even have time to check your mirror for someone on your left side? Doesn't look like it to me. So what do you do in that situation? Figure that pushing someone to the left is the better choice?

 

[Bryce Frazier]

We have a bridge in the local area called the Long Bridge. Not sure of the length, but it is close to, or a little over 2 miles.

Just a couple of weeks ago, a local kid was going to school, and answered a text while doing 60, crossed the center line in the middle of the 2 lane bridge, and hit a Swift truck head on... There was nothing left of the little black truck that he was driving, and he was killed on impact.

What a terrible thing for the truck driver... Knowing that you were kind of responsible for killing someone... Has to be hard to take..

 

[SweetFeet]

Wish people would not do stupid stuff... I've had numerous on-coming drivers cross the center line because they were either texting or talking.

I figure there is nothing so important coming over a darn phone that I'm willing to die (or kill someone else) while trying to read it or answer it. I always wait until I reach my destination, then check the text/voice message.

 

[James Howell]

Honk if you love Jesus.

Text while driving if you want to meet him.

 

[oldtanker]

Couple of years ago while on my way to an appointment a woman got on I 94 in Fargo, almost hit me and 2 other cars. Talking on her cell and applying makeup while driving. I think some people just don't want to live.

Rick

 

[tractorguy2]

Remember when the phone was attached to the kitchen wall of the with a cord?

We didn't talk on the phone 24hrs a day then. For some reason can't go 10 seconds today.

I don't even have a cell phone. No idea how to text. I get along fine.

 

[Blackhole49]

90% of the time while I'm driving, I know whats along side of me by the frequency I check my mirrors. The other 10% I have to rely on luck. I'll bet Jon's percentage is higher.

 

[Dick2]

It's a conditioned response and a lot of people don't have enough sense to not answer the phone.

Here in AZ, they leave an infant in the tub to answer the phone with the end result that the infant drowns. Sometimes the infants wander out to the pool and drown while mom is on the phone.

I can't drive a mile here in the city without seeing someone talking on a cell phone.

A lot of people rationalize it "because they had to answer the phone". NO, THEY DID NOT HAVE TO ANSWER THE PHONE; THAT'S WHAT VOICEMAIL IS FOR!

In spite of our technological advances, each generation seems to be getting dumber.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Back in the 70's, I was driving along the NYS Thruway (I90) in a single axle roll-back, Ford Louisville. I didn't spend much time in the passing lane. But this time I found myself needing to pass someone. I looked in my mirror and it was clear. I pulled out, and as I was along side the vehicle, something caught my eye to the left. I turned to see, to my great surprise, a lady along side me, passing me on the left shoulder! I assume her vehicle was somehow in a blind spot, and I had forced her over.

 

[Eldon (WA)]

(quoted from post at 04:38:03 10/08/14) This was yesterday evening, the guy was messin with his phone and never looked my way. Sorry for the quality of the video, but I couldn't download it to my tablet because I didn't format the card before hand and it wipes 8t clean when you format it. So I had to video it with my phone off the dash cam screen.i didn't get a good look, but there were others in there with him.
close call

Driving down the freeway in MT last winter and came up on a semi weaving all over the road. Figured the driver was falling asleep, so when it got over to the right side again I blew past it laying on the horn. Woman driver, texting....in a big rig....

 

[jon f mn]

Don't assume she was there, Ny. Drivers are famous for pulling around you once you've started your lane change. As far as my making the lane change I think the other guy here has it right, I knew there was no one there. Do I remember looking? No, but I'm usually aware of what's there. I do make mistakes and miss one once in a while, but that is rare, and it's more common that they weren't there when I started the lane change and tried to crowd me out.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Could be. I just about jumped out of my seat when I saw her. I was surprised at how sedately and calmly she was cruising along on the shoulder. I can still see it.

 

[bison]

On the news last night.
Texting or on the phone while driving causes over 4 million crashes a year.

 

[GVSII]

I was comeing out of a grocery store and starting across the parking lot,still in the cross walk and a car is comeing toward me heading for the exit which is about 50 feet ahead of her.The young woman driveing has her head down,both hands off the wheel and texting to beat the band.Totally unaware!I was so tempted to slap or kick the side of her car but all I could think of was her becoming startled,hitting the gas pedal and driving into traffic.As Jon says,N.Y. drivers are notorious for pulling into the lane you are signaling a move to.They also like to "fly formation" just off your rear bumper as you are signaling a lane change into the lane they are in-they WILL NOT back off to give you room and they won't pass you either,they just hang there.

 

[Jiles]

If the right person gets killed by a person talking on the phone, texting AND talking while driving, will be against the law!!
Just a matter of time, Sooner or later it will happen.

 

[2 Old 2 care]

It's already a law in Kentucky....You can't text and drive. Numbers show texting and driving is still INCREASING rather than being reduced. It's just a citation a driver MIGHT get AFTER the wreck.

 

[Ken Christopherson]

Pretty close call there. I was just headed out to dinner the other day with my fiancee, and was headed eastbound on Highway 10 through Anoka, MN. Had a guy in a Ford pickup with his buddy (both in duck camo) signal to move to the right lane - never fully changing lanes and riding the center line with his drivers side tires for at least a 1/4 mile. I no sooner than got my headlight aligned with the door handle on his door and he started moving back over into my lane. Both guys were on their cell phones, meanwhile I was half on the highway and half in the ditch in our little Mazda car. I just jammed on the gas and got out as soon as I could.

He proceeded to tailgate me and throw up obscenities until my exit approximately 4-5 miles down the road. I guess I was in the wrong.. I'll try to look out better next time.

I won't even tell you the close calls I have had on my motorcycle. Uff.

 

[GordoSD]

Is that a Go Pro video?

 

[jon f mn]

This one is a 4sight brand, beengood so far.

 

[DaninKansas]

Texting and driving - the socially acceptable way to kill people on the road.

 

[Spudm]

These patio or sidewalk restaurants are a concern to me. Just another reason why I don't do restaurants anymore.

 

[Mike (WA)]

This whole texting thing reminds me of water. Nobody can go 1 minute without staying in contact with their homies, via text messaging. Phone calls cost money back in the day, and the parents said "wait until tomorrow, you'll see her/him at school."

Nobody carried water bottles around when we were young- you drank water at home, then went about your business. If you were out working, you took some water, but that was about it. Now, no one can go anywhere without a bottle of water, that you buy at the store. Everybody buying cases of bottles. Doesn't anyone have water at home anymore? What's the matter with turning on a faucet into a glass and drinking it? I just don't get it.

 

[Mark-Mi]

What Jon, No train horn.

 

[jon f mn]

I haul many loads of water in bottles, most is bottled in a warehouse and just uses the same city water you get from the tap. Haul many loads of it out of denver with pretty mountain pics on the bottles and the bottler is hooked to the fire sprinkler pipe in a large warehouse.

 

[Animal]

How in the world can they issue tickets for drunk driving and not this stupid cell phone use? I am not condoning drunken driving at all, but at least a drunk has an excuse, after all he is gooned!

 

[ertl collector]

For everybody who's never done anything wrong