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Have you seen this Don't Text and Drive video? OMG
Posted by CreativeJunkie • 8/23/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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This video was making the rounds on some of the chat boards I belong to. It is utterly chilling.
Warning - it's graphic but not gratuitously so - I think it realistically shows what can happen.
thecreativejunkie.com/2009/08/23/three-things/
As a parent of a teenager who is counting down the days until she gets her license, my heart was in my throat as I watched this. I have lectured her about this ad nauseum, as well as talking on the phone while driving, drinking and driving, etc. The whole bit.
But when it comes right down to it, I can't be there in the car with her all the time to make sure she makes the right decision.
And what if she's a passenger in a car while someone else does this? I just can't put into words the helplessness I feel at the mere thought of that. Or of the thought that any one of us could be an innocent victim of someone else who does this.
I absolutely dread the day she and her friends get their licenses. I feel like they'll never be safe again. 
Do you have teenagers who drive? How do you overcome this fear?
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I have been putting into my daughter's head since 1998 about driving and talking on those damn phones. Texting is even worse, but there are just to many morons out there who think that they are multitasking as opposed to over doing a dangerous task to begin with.
Driving in itself is a mission.
www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Bush_Era_NHTSA_Hid_Data_on_Car_Cell_Phone_Dangers_9...
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people who drive while texting need to get beat down
people who walk around town texting need to trip over a fire hydrant
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Hey I walk around town texting lol Ok Ok not all the time but have been having a lot of memory problems so if I think of something I have to do it then or I will forget No texting and driving though. I know of a dump truck driver who was texting and driving ran a red light on a highway and you don't want to know what happened to the car he hit
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I don't have teenagers who drive...yet I would like to offer my thoughts on the video, it is brilliant, the aftermath of the crash is a reality and we should be airing these types of spots more often on television to get our teenagers and drivers period to stop looking at their cell phones while driving. -
That will get her attention. Although, teens always have that "it will never happen to me" attitude. I wish you lots of luck. -
That video should be something they show in drivers education or any other classes in school where they teach kids to drive. Just to show kids what can happen. I have seen bad accidents that involved cell phones and many of them included big trucks. A couple were the truckers fault and a lot of them were the cars fault.
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That's a very sad video, but I think that all drivers should watch it - not just teens. The British are very good about making videos to drive the point home about driving safely. When I lived there they had an advertisement on TV encouraging people to obey the 30 mph speed limit in the villages. It started out with a little girl who had been hit by a driver going 40. You didn't see the accident - the ad started with the child lying dead against a tree with blood trickling from her ear. It was very disturbing. The ad then went on to show what would have happened had the driver only been going 30. Time was simulated being reversed and the child slid from the tree to the middle of the road when she was injured but alive.
I was a professional driver while I lived there, and it really made me observe the speed limits in their little villages. -
It's hard for me to process the thought that my daughter will be driving soon. Seriously, I can't believe I'm having such a hard time with this ... I am going to be a huge puddle of mess when she turns sixteen.
It's not so much that I'm worried about her (although I agonize over whether she's make smart decisions or incredibly stupid ones) but more so that I'm worried about everyone else on the road - I cannot tell you how many people I pass who are texting or simply talking on their phones. It just makes my blood boil, to think that my family is put at so much of a higher risk because of morons on the road.
As if drunk drivers weren't enough to worry about.
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