Life Teenager's last words: "Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."

ReynardMuldrake · 03-05-2012, 04:05 PM

Helloooo Darwin awards!

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Bright, outgoing college teen Taylor Sauer proved in the last minutes of her life she knew right from wrong — but still committed a fatal mistake.

Sauer was making a late-night, four-hour drive from the Utah State University campus in Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho. She passed the time along I-84 messaging a pal on Facebook about the Denver Broncos football team. But she stopped short, writing in her final missive, "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."

Moments later, Sauer, going more than 80 mph, slammed into a tanker truck that was slowly creeping up a hill at 15 mph. She was killed instantly; investigators saw no signs that she applied the brakes before the fatal crash. And in checking her cell phone records, they learned Sauer was posting about every 90 seconds during her drive.

"I think she was probably (texting) to stay awake, she was probably tired," Taylor's dad, Clay Sauer, told Ann Curry on TODAY Monday. "But that's not a reason to do it, and the kids think they're invincible. To them, (texting) is not distracting, they're so proficient at texting, that they don't feel it's distracted driving."

Clay and Shauna Sauer, still grieving over their 18-year-old daughter's Jan. 12 death, have become lobbyists in their home state to urge the state legislature to pass a ban on texting while driving. Idaho is one of 13 states in the U.S. that has no such law in place.

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|Zach| · 03-05-2012, 04:07 PM

Yeesh goin 80

Deberg_1990 · 03-05-2012, 04:08 PM

Newsflash! Teenagers drive stupid. Ill bet insurance companies have known this for years.

DJ's left nut · 03-05-2012, 04:09 PM

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.

siberian khatru · 03-05-2012, 04:24 PM

If only we had a law, she would've known that driving and facebooking is not safe, and she would be alive today.

MIAdragon · 03-05-2012, 04:25 PM

"probably (texting) to stay awake" JFC

blaise · 03-05-2012, 04:27 PM

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.

Setsuna · 03-05-2012, 04:28 PM

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.

htismaqe · 03-05-2012, 04:28 PM

We have a "driving while texting" ban here and I still see a dozen people a day doing it...

AndChiefs · 03-05-2012, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by |Zoccer|

Yeesh goin 80

If she was in the Idaho portion of the drive the speed limit would've been 75. That's not much over.

Frazod · 03-05-2012, 04:30 PM

Too bad there weren't more Bronco fans in the car with her.

VikesFan · 03-05-2012, 04:32 PM

What a shame

Johnny Vegas · 03-05-2012, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.

I've almost met the ass end of tons of 18 wheelers because they decide to pass another 18 wheeler going up a hill when I'm coming up on them and I'm at cruise control going 80. Their ****ing truck is going 30 up hill trying to pass another truck going 30 up hill. They have no respect for other motorists.

Micjones · 03-05-2012, 04:33 PM

So sad.
I'm not sure it wouldn't have happened anyway, had she not been texting, though.

Frazod · 03-05-2012, 04:33 PM

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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blaise In Search of a Life Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Plano, TX Casino cash: $9999900	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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Setsuna Paladin Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Gator Country Casino cash: $10008487	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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