Our great social attention deficit
disorder (SADD). You may read it here.
When I first signed up for Facebook, I reconnected with a lovely young mother from
California who attended a workshop I’d given there; she read my article and, in
response, posted a picture of a very bloody accident on Facebook which has as
of this writing has garnered 4,720 likes, 3,113 comments, and was shared 91,381
times. See below:
I am terribly fascinated by the comments that this picture
has provoked, especially after just having written my article. My only comment,
aside from my general amazement at the spelling and grammar, was that I wished
the discussion had not been about the truck itself. My point was that if ten more
people stop texting while driving after seeing the picture, and they tell ten more people to do the same, then I
think we will have started a new campaign – the Stop Texting While Driving
Revolution!
I have copied only the comments that grabbed me (names removed, of course). They are in the order they arrived, and no edits have been made. I want to know what YOU think of this picture, these comments and the issue of texting while driving.
So many people still not getting it in Bmore
or Md.... It should apply to all including law enforcement since there so many
wireless devices !!!! Safety is and should be everyones concern!!!
What a disaster?
This should be a wake up call to people in a
hurry and want to multi task. Maybe not some people will think I am better than
that and still text while driving. That is why they say wisdom is not for the
young patience is acquired over time.
People just don’t listen when you tell them
not to tx and drive till this happen mayby is because they have shit for brains
Regardless of whether your driving a truck or
car, pay attention to your driving. Pull over if you want to tx or phone
someone!
I think that Im gonna slow down in my corvette and def. NOT
text while driving.....
What is so important that it cant wait...are a few words
worth losing your life over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!! but u know what this still won’t effect the ones that
still do it ivr seen adults txtn or reading need to get off ur phones period..
Life is short enough as
it is. Take nothing for granite and take minute to think of the consequences of
each action. I'm far from perfect, but I do want to live to see another day.
OMG No more texting
& driving for me
that truck was broke
down in the break down lane!!!! look at the ground behind the vette's tires!!!
NO SKID MARKS... And the vette hit the rear axles of this trailer so hard it
pushed them all they way to the front at the axle's stop bar!!!! i see this
everyday, i been driving truck for 36 years... vettes owner my he R..I.P.
hey andrew there is a
bar there desighned to stop this from happenening but due to the spped of the
vehicle it is now folded up underneath the trailer
The bars on the truck were put there to avoid this type of
accident, They first appeared when Jane Mansfield ran her car under a truck
like this, to very bad
Yeah, and what if the
truck driver just pulled back on the road on the down hill side going only 5 or
10 mph. [I saw this many times] The poor fool in the vet wouldn't have a chance
even if he wasn't tex in. These new young guys just out of so called DRIVERS SCHOO are as dumb as a sack of nipples.
The main lanes are minimum speed 40 mph. So thhe idea is to get as closee to
that speed as pos before you pull into the fast lane over a hill top.
I drive a truck and can say the truck would push the car
backwards long before it ever got under like that plus the car driver would get
out or honk horn before this too as trucks don't reverse fast. Only a high
speed impact would do this. Nice to know that the trucker is still always to
blame though.
FYI...An ICC Bumper
won't stop a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed from going under a
semi...I will usually stop a slower lighter vehicle but in this case, you can't
fix STUPIDITY...even with an ICC Bumber...And, Jennifer...This is for you...If you REALLY think the truck backed OVER the car,
I hope you never breed...This car had to be going at LEAST 60mph or MORE in
order for this extent of damage to happen...Oh, wait, that's right, I forget,
You PROBABLY have a copy of the police report, huh? Jennifer, you are TRUELY an
idiot, but God bless you and may he allow your children to grow up more
intelligent than you are
I got a dwi I'm so piss I don't believe in drinking and
driving but someone had to take them kids to day care!
hes dead give him a
break im sure u have done stupid things to u wont tell rite
no dont blame the
truckers its your job to be aware they got blind sides and no back window duh
thats a cope out and u know it
Been there.High speed
chase ended on the back of my truck.Three kids,stolen stang.ICC bumpers are
designed to crumple@50,000 psi. 500hp,fiberglass,convertib
the only disaster is the loss of such a nice car..... sorry i
have no compassion for such stupidity, i refuse to have any sympathy for this
idiot. im a truck driver and i see this shit every day. people driving down the
road texting among other stupid things. YOU ALL NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE
ROAD!!!!!!
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