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Originally posted by konata88:
Daily idiots here everywhere, all the time. Coming up behind them, it's obvious they are on the phone. They are weaving and most of the time they are outside their lane. And then figure out at the last minute (probably because of a GPS warning) that they need to turn NOW and make sudden lane changes and turns.

These people - the penalties should not be just financial. It should be corporal as well.

Take a page from Singapore’s book and add caning? Good idea, I like it!

Worst year of bad driving behavior I have ever seen, but not limited to driving. Mofos are just lawless or don't give a F***.

Friend of mine lost a niece who was texting while driving.

The text she was trying to send when they recovered her phone at the crash?

"lol"

It's not that important. Put your damned phone down.

Sure glad he seems to be alright; that internal arterial bleed sounds like serious stuff. Now just 6 - 8 weeks of, “It only hurts when I breathe.”

Another cell phone story. Some good friends of mine were sitting at a red light when a young woman texting plowed into the back of them at an estimated 40 mph. She never touched her brakes.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
You guys ever get a closeup view of the inside of a police car? Makes cell phone use look like absolutely nothing.

It's the very definition of distracted driving.
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Yeah. Let's just take a big shit on cops for no fucking reason, and step right over Mark's BIL laying up in the hospital, to do so.

It's like interjecting politics in apolitical threads.

Yeah. It's a peeve.

Prayers for a quick and full recovery. I guess I'm too old to understand why people have to text while they're driving. I don't understand what's so important that it can't wait.

My new Charger displays your text message on the dashboard screen when I receive one. I dont fool with that either, since it just trades one distraction with another.

Mark123, prayers for your BILs complete and speedy recovery.

This scares me as my area is in the process of being invaded with 2 million visitors. Actually we're expecting a LOT more than that this year given what we've witnessed the past two months.

Used to joke about the beginning of tourist season being marked by RVs headed the wrong way on a one way street downtown. Now it's not only that but bikers missing curves well before the Sturgis Rally. And car and truck jackwads running stoplights and stop signs as well as drifting across lanes because of their distracted driving.

Prayers to mark's BIL for a speedy recovery.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
You guys ever get a closeup view of the inside of a police car? Makes cell phone use look like absolutely nothing.

It's the very definition of distracted driving.
...

Yeah. Let's just take a big shit on cops for no fucking reason, and step right over Mark's BIL laying up in the hospital, to do so.

It's like interjecting politics in apolitical threads.

Yeah. It's a peeve.

On top of what SM said, how far do your kids get when they make the excuse that "but so and so isn't following the rules either?"

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
6 out of 10 cars I look into, the driver is holding a cell phone down into his lap

In the morning, vehicles cut through our area from an apartment complex. Easily a full half are 'phones up, head down'.

Glad to hear he is OK. Thank god for EMTs, nurses and doctors.

Years ago my wife was at the tail end of traffic on Route 80. She was looking in the rear view mirror and saw a car coming at not slowing down, She did her best to pull onto the shoulder to avoid being hit. Didnt matter. She got in the rear right part of my Excursion. Hurt my kids a little.

Any she was texting and driving. Thankfully she broke her leg. Harsh yes. But she was lucky.

Dont make my mistake, I was "forgiving" and didnt sue. In this case I say sue. I am not a sue happy person but the bills and other crap will pile up.

Hopefully the driver will put down the phone next time he/she drives.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
You guys ever get a closeup view of the inside of a police car? Makes cell phone use look like absolutely nothing.

It's the very definition of distracted driving.
...

Yeah. Let's just take a big shit on cops for no fucking reason, and step right over Mark's BIL laying up in the hospital, to do so.

It's like interjecting politics in apolitical threads.

Yeah. It's a peeve.

No, let's have equality for everyone, not just for the selected few.

If you're truly opposed to distracted driving, you'd be opposed to everyone who does it. Either the law applies to everyone or it applies to no one.

Yes, it's one of my peeves.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
The law in Arizona says that if you touch a phone while driving, you'll be ticketed.

Hands free is okay here, though.

Most women I see driving pay absolutely no attention to the law.

Stupid is as stupid does. I still see them around here in AZ.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
The law in Arizona says that if you touch a phone while driving, you'll be ticketed.

Hands free is okay here, though.

Most women I see driving pay absolutely no attention to the law.

It needs to be instant arrest and the same as DUI, period.

Prayers for your brother in law.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
The law in Arizona says that if you touch a phone while driving, you'll be ticketed.

Hands free is okay here, though.

Problem is: While manipulating ones phone while driving is certainly A Very Bad Idea, hands-free is not without its problems, as well.

Somebody did a study I read a couple years back, showing hands-free phone conversations were nearly as distracting as hands-on. Oddly enough: They found the same was not true, to the same degree, when conversing with another physically in the same vehicle.

I've experienced it, myself.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
Most women I see driving pay absolutely no attention to the law.

I do not know what's up with this, but, when I encounter needlessly aggressive drivers on the roads these days (wildly exceeding the speed limit, cutting people off in lane merges, refusing to allow others in in lane merges, etc.), it's far more often women than men.

It didn't used to be this way. I started noticing this change about... five to six years back?

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
You guys ever get a closeup view of the inside of a police car? Makes cell phone use look like absolutely nothing.

It's the very definition of distracted driving.
...

Yeah. Let's just take a big shit on cops for no fucking reason, and step right over Mark's BIL laying up in the hospital, to do so.

It's like interjecting politics in apolitical threads.

Yeah. It's a peeve.

No, let's have equality for everyone, not just for the selected few.

If you're truly opposed to distracted driving, you'd be opposed to everyone who does it. Either the law applies to everyone or it applies to no one.

Yes, it's one of my peeves.

Then start your own fucking thread.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Then start your own fucking thread.

Bro, if you need to moderate other members comments, start your own message board?

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Originally posted by mark123:

Bro-in-law got a couple broken ribs and a internal arterial break from the impact.

As in a torn aorta? If so, you need to nominate them for what ever medals their department issued for Doing Their Job Right (a "Medal of Valor" perhaps).

A torn aorta is common in high velocity (>25 mph, IIRC) accidents. The reason is the heart has inertia of its own, and when the body stops, the heart tries to keep moving, stretching and tearing the aorta and maybe the inferior and superiors vena cavas and the pulmonary trunk artery, too. tr and In my paramedic course there was a lecture on the physics of injuries and the "movie" we watched showed a motorcyclist t-boning a car at 25 mph, then it proceeded to list the kinds of injuries that were almost always fatal in this kind of motorcycle or automobile accident. If you need help doing this, let me know and I will happily assist you and your BIL.

The lecture was about thee months after I rode my motorcycle into a stopped car on the Beltway. I was doing around 60 mph, and survived with comparatively minor injuries. The entire class knew the story, and in unison everyone turned to look at me. I was told I was as pale as a ghost.

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Originally posted by soflaac:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Then start your own fucking thread.

Bro, if you need to moderate other members comments, start your own message board?

Like you’re doing now, right? This was about someone’s family member getting injured. Thread drift is frowned upon. I admit the profanity is over the top but that’s about it.