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Driving While “inTEXTicated”
Mar 6th
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I received this email from a very close friend of mine and the fact of the matter is I can pass it along to my “friends and family” in my personal email list or I can put it here on the blog and hope it finds its way to millions instead. I am a mom, I am a grandmother and there but for the Grace of God goes mine. Or yours. I know so many are guilty of texting while driving, especially our young adults with their fancy phones that do everything except cook a meal for them. Realize what can happen, see who you can hurt, driving is a privledge and should be done with the utmost respect for everyone around you, including yourself.
Here is the email along with the photos I must warn you, this is not for the faint of heart, but I hope it sends a STRONG message to those who read this. Please read to the bottom there is a link where you can help legislature pass the law needed.
Email reads:
An 18-year-old girl plowed directly into the rear of another vehicle. She
was going 70 mph. She apparently never even saw them. You see, she had
been texting at the time.
You can see that she hit them dead-center with no attempt to slow or evade
the collision.
She hit dead-center on her 2008 Yukon SUV as well. She escaped unscathed.
There was no blowout, no wet road, no curve or hill or fog to limit
visibility. This girl clearly should have been able to see the traffic
conditions at least a half mile ahead had she been looking and not texting.
She nearly killed a beautiful 3-year-old child?
Here’s a personal look at the real human cost of texting while driving:
This is Griffin before the accident
Griffen the day after 4 hours of surgery to repair multiple skull
fractures. He would surely have died or been severely disabled had they
not been minutes away (by StarFlight helicopter) from Austin’s world-class
children’s Dell Children’s Medical Center and neurosurgeon Dr. Timothy
George.
Day 4 – watching a movie on his Dad’s iPhone.
The swelling of his head will go away, but that scar from ear-to-ear will
be with him forever.
Feeling better. Mmmmm – mac-n-cheese. 
Day 5 – feeling much better. My granddad bought me my very own iPod and
loaded it with movies. Life is good.
This morning. All my tubes are finally out. I’m going home today!
Note how much the swelling has improved in just three days.
It’s almost unbelievable that it’s been only five days since the accident
that nearly claimed his life.
All the medical experts involved expect him to make a full recovery.
Pretty soon he’ll be all healed up and back to normal – thank the Lord!
In only six weeks he’ll be allowed to be just as active as any other
3-year-old.
Phone company records of text messages are irrefutable and accurate to the
second; so it would be an easy matter to prove in court that a person was
texting at the time of an accident. As with drunken driving, a jail
sentence (no matter the driver’s age) will be mandatory whenever anyone is
injured by an InTEXTicated driver.
I encourage you to forward this email to all your friends. We must try to
stop ‘Driving While InTEXTicated’ before more innocent people are maimed or
killed.
Its all about our choices we make in life lets make a choice to never hurt another person, child or otherwise due to our inability to turn off our phones or placing a text message while we should be paying attention to the road. The text can wait, a life could be lost if we do not understand what is truly important.
J. Walker
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