Text-messaging teen driver involved in fatal accident

I believe phone talking while driving should be limited to emergency use only.

Agreed, but it better be damn important!

I almost got wiped out on the freeway by a phone talking woman a while back. We were doing eighty when she just veered into my lane. I had to jamb a foot on the brake and move to the next lane. I saw in the headlights she had a phone against her ear and tunnel vision. She took the next exit, and my wife said she could still see the phone against her ear way down on the feeder road. I honestly believe she had not a clue how close we all came to death that night.

I can well imagine. I really get worried when someone is on a phone behind me in traffic. They get so wrapped up in their conversation that anything can happen.

What's even scarier, is when folks do it when there's snow and ice on the road. How can one possibly have the best reactions to situations like that if you are otherwise engaged?

Eating, drinking, and changing the radio station should be regulated, too.

And what was that last text message he sent? "Hey, lets all hook up tonight at auuuughh!"

Texting is the same
If you get into the argument of texting, then talking on the cell phone, then fidgeting with the radio, you can also argue talking to another person in the car or looking anywhere off the road or anything that people do in a car usually that has nothing to do with keeping your eyes on the road. I believe that Texting should have stiffer penalties, but i don't see the big deal of talking ont he cell phone. At any rate, you always have to be careful when you drive, especially of the other drivers on the road.

I do it all the time (talk on the phone) but would understand 100% if they made it illegal to do so.

It is distracting, and if you are talking away, not listening, you could miss something...like an ambulance that you almost broadside because you went though the intersetion. (saw this happen last year) The woman hung up and sat there for a moment, a little dumbfounded.

Bet she doesn't talk on the phone in the car anymore.

Thanks for your honesty, Bella. It's quite refreshing to hear.