Texting while driving increases crash risk 23-fold

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Drivers of heavy trucks who were texting while driving were at a 23 times greater risk of a crash or near-crash than those who were not, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute reported last night.

Does this actually surprise anyone?


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Oh yeah… it got worse.
This has been a post from EricIverson.Net to LiveJournal.com House of BS, Studio 347 Comics, Three Fourty-Seven | accident, crash, driving, Eric, Handdrawn, Michele

So yeah… this actually happened, not too long ago in fact. My father-in-law for some time had been loaning us a car, he’d been talking to us for a while about just writing it over to us and as it happened he had met up with Michele earlier and signed over the car without my knowledge, I got sent to the store and ended up completely not seeing the ( Read more... )