Thread: Do you text while driving??????

Tweet

I have done in the past,until I nearly rear ended someone,,just a simple yup,or, OK,sent off in reply,but the near miss woke me up,,but in saying that,many people I know have had a close call,and still do it..Nothing like following a car thats weaving all over the road,the driver is either drunk or texting,nowadays they seem to be texting,or talking.I always pull over now to answer the phone,or if my wife is with me,she answers it.
New Zealand government has finally passed a law prohibiting the use ofcellphones while driving,but doesnt come into effect for a few months yet,,meanwhile the carnage will go on..I just dont want to be on the receiving end of it.

Sent chills up my back. I know that feeling all too well of getting knocked into a uncontrolled spin, slamming into the K-rail, kissing off of that and coming to a rest broadside to 70 MPH traffic coming right at me .... luckily I was able to do some "creative" driving to get to the side of the road and avoid the second impact.

To answer the question .... no, I dont text while driving

Heck, I dont even text while sitting in a chair at home.....

Every day it seems that we all come across people who are in control of an automobile that appear that their driving is secondary to something else....texting, talking on the phone, eating, reading, putting makeup on (hopefully women only), yelling at the kids, arguing with the spouse, shaving (hopefully men only), drinking, smoking, writing notes, mastu.....oops dont want to see that!!

I wonder how many accidents actually involve drivers who have an attention lapse...I would bet that it is a much higher percentage than is recorded.

mike in tucson

I almost killed a woman a couple years ago, who turned right in front of my RV when I was running 55MPH. I had to slam on the brakes as hard as I could ....and she still never even saw me! ...and I heard it's 8X more likely to have an accident when texting, as compared to talking on the phone.