In this case, not.
A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.
Investigators said Deborah Matis-Engle was speeding and text messaging when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007. She had paid several bills by cell phone moments before the crash.
She was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck the vehicle that burst into flames, killing the occupant.
When are we going to come to our senses and restrict the use of cell phones while driving? How many more people have to die? How many more people are going to have to go to jail? It is crazy when we know they are distracting to not make and enforce a law prohibiting their use. But, then what would the lobbyists do?
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I would agree to a point. I see no problem with people talking on blue tooth technology. That is no different than talking to a person in the car. I think that texting should definitely be outlawed though
I'm with you on that Alice. Anything that has to held is a distraction and should not be allowed. Thanks for making that clear.
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