Do you text while driving? Watch this and you won't anymore

[BigJimW]

Oh God, that was brutal. You could hear the crack of the passengers neck when it breaks. Multiple fatalities in this mock crash for sure.

It was heartbraking to see that little girl begging for their mommy and daddy to wake up.

Texting while driving is just as bad as driving drunk. This video should be standard issue in all drivers ed classes all over the country.

 

[Blooper]

never. i dont even answer the phone. If i'm in the car its me time. music and trying to relax. But someone on a cell cuts me off or does something stupid i lay my horn on the ....... for a good 2 minute honk.

 

[jimik]

That video was pretty ruthless. Ever since I've had kids I can't stand to see dead babies, even if it is fake.

Being in Florida, I used to avoid car accidents a lot on my way to work.. People here are crazy.. Sometimes I wonder if they would drive better if they were blindfolded.

 

[BigJimW]

That video was pretty ruthless. Ever since I've had kids I can't stand to see dead babies, even if it is fake.

Being in Florida, I used to avoid car accidents a lot on my way to work.. People here are crazy.. Sometimes I wonder if they would drive better if they were blindfolded.

EDIT: Rewatching it oh my God. I can't watch this again.

As for the texting driver that started it all, if I were her, I'd rather had been a fatality than to have to live out the rest of my life knowing what I had done.

Very powerful stuff.

 

[jimik]

EDIT: Rewatching it oh my God. I can't watch this again.

As for the texting driver that started it all, if I were her, I'd rather had been a fatality than to have to live out the rest of my life knowing what I had done.

Very powerful stuff.

Yeah, there is no way I would want to live with that.

 

[HaploVoss]

I hate to say this, but honestly - before my dept. got axed beginning of the year, my job (like most of my jobs over the last 15 years) was as a Field Technician.

Basically entails driving around 1500 - 2500 miles a week, going to all sorts of out of the way towns and such diagnosing, repairing, maintaining and doing new installs of POS (Point Of Sale - and the other acronym works too ) systems for fast food chains.

In this type of job, I am on my cellphone (voice) I would say 1/4 to 1/2 the time I am on the road. Seriously. I am in constant contact with dispatch, directors, stores, equipment sups, hardware dept, support, third party vendors, you name it.

I was never in a single wreck because of my phone. Not even close to one. I was hoever close to a few wrecks because of other people on their phones waving their hands around and not paying attention.

Moral of the story? I think it boils down to whether or not you are able to multi-task, and how distracting the call is. I did pull over at times if it was lengthy or in an area with tons of interchanges I was unfamiliar with. However I just could not have done my job without my phone period.

So does that make me a jerk or a horrible person? I don't know, but if I was offered a job tomorrow that would help pay the bills again and it required me to use the phone like that. I'd do it in a heartbeat. You better believe it. Family comes first I'm sorry.

Take care all,
- Hap

 

[jimik]

In this type of job, I am on my cellphone (voice) I would say 1/4 to 1/2 the time I am on the road. Seriously. I am in constant contact with dispatch, directors, stores, equipment sups, hardware dept, support, third party vendors, you name it.

People have been doing it with CBs for years, I don't see why it would be any different with a cell phone. Especially if you have voice dial. I think the problem arises because people have a hard time hearing who they are talking to and start concentrating on what they hear more so than what they are looking at, they are trying to balance the cell phone, or they are dialing.

 

[BigJimW]

Well, I picked the fatalities out of this one.

Watching it a third time, here is how they went:

Driver in Car A (Texting Queen) was not only wearing her seatbelt, but was blessed with an airbag. The rest of the passengers weren't so lucky to have airbags. She was the only survivor. The passengers bounce around, smashing windows with their heads and generally bleeding all over the place. I hope "James" was really worth it.

The backseat passenger smashed her face on the forward seats, causing massive head and neck injuries, both of which would be fatal. Force of the crash rendered her seatbelt ineffective.

Front seat passenger was tossed violently forward in the collision and smacked her face on the dashboard. Both cars A and B stopped at this point.

The Front Seat passenger in Car (A) initially survived the first collision, despite having her face smash into the dash and having her head smash a window out, but died during the second collision of the second car (C). Her neck broke during the violent forces of getting t-boned by car (C). The "crack" sound was the givaway.

All persons in Car A were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.

In Car (C), the lone driver did not have an airbag, but survived because he was wearing a seatbelt. He was right on top of the mess and could not stop in time.

Now, this leaves car (B), the car with the family that was originally collided with. Both mother and father die. They were not wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash and smashed violently into the dash and steering wheel. The little girl in the back seat was properly restrained with a belt and survived.

Baby dies because of crushing chest injuries from not one, but two collisions from both cars A and C. Because babies chests are not fully developed, the g forces of both impacts caused a fatal collapes in the chest cavity. Even though properly restrained by a child seat, the enormous energy released in two collisions like this are too much for an infants chest to bear.

This concludes the autopsy of the video. I feel this type of PSA should be standard in ALL classes teaching driving. It drives the points home, and drives them hard.

Whoever made it should be given an award.

 

[bewzer]

im more curious if james did, in fact, fancy jules...maybe she fancied james and was jealous, so it may be a homicide...csi ftw