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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Stop Driving While InTEXTicated! During my trip back from Toledo, in a small town in southern Illinois, I noticed a series of identical signs lining the main strip through town. The signs read: "STOP Driving While InTEXTicated." The new word caught my attention! People often tell me something to the effect of: "I'm not worried about your ability on the motorcycle. It is the other drivers that worry me." For the remainder of my trip---after seeing that InTEXTicated sign---I became even more conscious than usual of just how many people were texting away in automobiles and trucks. It is rather common. The one that bothered me most, though, was the mom driving while texting...with her teenage daughter sitting in the passenger seat texting too...both more absorbed in their phone than on the road. I began asking myself a series of troubling questions, such as: Would this mom be destroyed (for the example she set) if her daughter later died in an InTEXTication auto accident? Would the daughter go to prison if she hit my motorcycle and killed me while texting? Should she? If someone else was texting and her daughter died in an "accident" because of it, would this mom sue? I have done it. I will never do it again.
Posted at 11:27 PM Keywords: Cycle of Education , EdClick , DanClick , Travel , Texting 1 Comments |