Do You Text & Drive?

A friend described how his granddaughter was injured…in an auto accident because the faulty driver was texting on her cell phone. 

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 His granddaughter and her brother, who was driving, had stopped in a line of traffic at a red light.

They were rear ended and the granddaughter was thrown against the windshield.  (She was faulted for not wearing her seat belt.)  The hit from behind was forceful enough that it threw the grandchildren’s car into the one stopped ahead of them.  People from all three cars were taken to the hospital.  Fortunately none were injured enough to require  more than outpatient care.

Do you and/or your youngsters use cell phones and text while driving?  Do you feel you’re safe when you’re doing this? Do you think it’s okay to have your attention diverted by your texting  while driving?  Or driving one-handed while using a cell phone?

Would you want your children or grandchildren  involved in an accident as our friend’s grandchildren were…because a driver was text messaging?