It’s the phone stupid!
Foxnews headline…
Girl in Fatal Wreck Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash
So this 16 year old girl crashed her car and died of head injuries. Her mother “hopes the accident will make other people think before texting and driving”. That’s good advice, not paying attention to what you’re doing while driving is dangerous and texting requires a significant amount of attention so you shouldn’t do it while driving right? Right.
Oh WAIT a minute, how bout this little insignificant detail…
Authorities say Preuss had been driving drunk and was speeding.
Well, what do you think had more of an important role in this crash, the texting or the inebriated, speeding teenager? The police say that the texting “may have contributed to the crash” but when you are drunk and speeding, having to pee real bad could contribute to a crash. It doesn’t matter what else she was doing, the drunk speeding is, most likely, the reason she is dead, not the texting!
I hate the news media.