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Teenager's last words: "Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."
Helloooo Darwin awards!
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03-05-2012, 04:07 PM | #2 |
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Yeesh goin 80
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03-05-2012, 04:08 PM | #3 |
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Newsflash! Teenagers drive stupid. Ill bet insurance companies have known this for years.
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03-05-2012, 04:09 PM | #4 |
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You can pay a hell of a lot of attention, but if you come up a hill and there's a !@#$ing tanker truck doing 15 on a highway, you're in a little bit of trouble either way.
No question that she shouldn't have been texting, but there but for the grace of God goes anyone that swears they'd have never hit that truck. A situation like that could pop up if you're simply changing the radio station or sneezing. A 65 mph difference closes in a hurry and 80 mph on an interstate is hardly unreasonable (I know I'm at 80-85 for most of my trip down 44 through OK or 35 through KS). Those trucks that take their sweet-ass time on the highway are dangerous as hell. Especially when it's late and you're on hilly terrain where you kinda struggle to pick up distance as you go up and down over the hills and don't have a prolonged lock on whatever you're coming up on. It makes it really tough to gauge their speed.
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03-05-2012, 04:24 PM | #5 |
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If only we had a law, she would've known that driving and facebooking is not safe, and she would be alive today.
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03-05-2012, 04:25 PM | #6 |
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"probably (texting) to stay awake" JFC
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03-05-2012, 04:27 PM | #7 |
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That's terrible. A few years back some teen girl near where I grew up in Western NY was driving like 5 other girls around and smashed into a semi. They all died and her phone records showed she was texting right before the accident.
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03-05-2012, 04:28 PM | #8 |
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That's terrible. 80 is pretty fast though. I'd be going....well nvm. I'd be going 79 if the speed limit was 70. Maybe that extra -1 mph would have been the difference.
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03-05-2012, 04:28 PM | #9 |
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We have a "driving while texting" ban here and I still see a dozen people a day doing it...
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03-05-2012, 04:29 PM | #10 |
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If she was in the Idaho portion of the drive the speed limit would've been 75. That's not much over.
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03-05-2012, 04:30 PM | #11 |
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Too bad there weren't more Bronco fans in the car with her.
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03-05-2012, 04:32 PM | #12 |
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What a shame
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03-05-2012, 04:33 PM | #14 |
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So sad.
I'm not sure it wouldn't have happened anyway, had she not been texting, though.
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03-05-2012, 04:33 PM | #15 |
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Agree about the trucks. There is a minimum speed limit on interstate highways, and it's a lot higher than 15 mph.
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