How bad is texting and driving.

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v8_mopar, Sep 16, 5:30am
lol yea and we all do that auto pilot job

johnf_456, Sep 16, 5:52am
Only without handsfree.

chicko_wicko, Sep 16, 5:59am
And The Moral Of The Story Is: Do As I Say But Not AS I Do.

chicko_wicko, Sep 16, 6:04am
Your Not ment to be doing it anywhere - regardless! :P

merrilegs, Sep 16, 8:16pm
111 or *555 is the exception to this, so Ive been told.

elect70, Sep 16, 8:49pm
You are driving a lethal weapona seconds inatention looking down atcellphoneat50 ktravel20 metres & you couldrun over a pedestrian or kid running on to roadbefore have time to react . At 100 k its over 40 metres a second .

peja, Sep 16, 9:55pm
Vodafone has an excellent service that negates the need to text while driving, called Drivesafe
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/apps-services/mobile-services/drive-safe/

I cannot understand why Telecom doesnt have an equivalent

peja, Sep 16, 10:00pm
And further to this. I got rear ended a few weeks ago by a silly woman in a BMW coupe, almost dead sure she was texting at the time. Ran up the back of my Falcon ute and shunted me almost ten metres into the back of a Corolla, lots of damage to the Corolla and wrote off her BMW, not a lot of damage to my ute. There is no way she could have hit me if she had been looking where she was going.

Amusing for me, but if it had been a cyclist or a group of children she had hit rather than the big towbar on the back of my ute the outcome would have been horrific

drgl33t, Sep 16, 10:18pm
been doing it over ten years & never had a crash, caused a few tho !

mrfxit, Sep 16, 11:16pm
Had a slightly different close call a few weeks ago.
Dude was running as fast as he could across 4 lanes of traffic (2 lanes each way) while STILL holding a cell ph to his ear & you could see he was yakking flat out.
Another was a chick with an Mp3 player crossing a busy road in town & adjusting something on the player, stepped off the kerb, looked up & straight back down to the player & carried on walking across IN the traffic.

See a lot step straight out on ped crossings like that but don't even bother to look up at all

trogedon, Sep 16, 11:55pm
Nuts