This is always in the news. Please share this and show this video with all you kids and loved ones.

[Greg Dent]

 

[Greg Dent]

If this doesnt break your heart or the one you show it to there is something wrong. Its easy to say it wont happen to me until it does.

[boodles]

A good reminder not to even hold the phone while driving. It's against the law here in California but sometimes I use the map when stopped.

Edited November 21, 2017 by boodles

[Greg Dent]

Put it in a holder and have the voice directions activated. It is that dangerous. 

[Old]

The new law in Oregon forbids having the phone in your hand even at a stoplight. It is now a primary offense which means they can pull you over for it. First offense $260 to $1000 fine. A second offense can be a $6250 and up to a year in jail.

[Tortuga]

10 minutes ago, Old said:

The new law in Oregon forbids having the phone in your hand even at a stoplight. It is now a primary offense which means they can pull you over for it. First offense $260 to $1000 fine. A second offense can be a $6250 and up to a year in jail.

I think California is similar, even being stopped at a red light is considered to be legally operating the vehicle.

[Greg Dent]

Guys just because its illigal doesnt stop kids from doing it. Show them this video to shock them into not doing it. Sometimes its the only way to get them to stop. Sometimes a shocking video like this is the only way to get them to stop. 

[Tortuga]

23 minutes ago, Greg Dent said:

Guys just because its illigal doesnt stop kids from doing it. Show them this video to shock them into not doing it. Sometimes its the only way to get them to stop. Sometimes a shocking video like this is the only way to get them to stop. 

Thanks

Edited November 21, 2017 by Tortuga

[Qapla]

In Florida, it is illegal to text and drive - but, it is still legal to do it while "stopped" .... and this includes red lights.

 

Back when it was still "legal" to text and drive, well, before they passed an specific law against it - we had a good friend who was the victim of someone texting while driving - this fine Brother is now waiting the New System in Jehovah's memory.

[Greg Dent]

Sad to hear. Share this video with everyone you care about.

[Thomas Walker]

Every social cause takes this route...

 

Smoking, drinking, domestic violence, homelessness... Everything bad in the background of all our lives has some series of commercials or short films. I've taken to writing epilogues in my head. Whenever someone dies in a medical show, I picture the moment they take their first breath in paradise.

[Greg Dent]

That doesnt ease the pain of someone being severly injured or worse in this system. The new system will fix everything but until then its still out respicibility to treat our life and others as a gift. This includes following the direction in this video and admonition we get about safety matters. Do treat it as a small thing is akin to treating our lives as meaning very little. 

[Allabord4Jah]

All my phones are home, except for one, and that stays in my pocket, fullly charged and used during emergency stops or if am not dead a call for help.  I do use my little cell phone if I pull over somewhere safe and call to let the friends know how far I am to meet them in the ministry.  Once I do that (I don't text), I leave a message.  The cell has voice mail and it goes there, when I get to my distination, that's when I retrieve messages, when I am parked.  I live in Maryland, and we have the same laws just about as every state has too, but when am out, I see people not so many young teens, but more mature people who drive with the phone up the their ear.  I mean, these people have Iphones that can snap on to their suv or car dashes.  Some hae voice over the radio through their steering wheels.  Why is ther a handheld?  The video above, was an eye opened for these kids, but their kids, and listen today, but gone tomorrow.  

[Greg Dent]

It boggles my mind too Lisa. it really does.

[juliansan]

In Germany it is illegal to take your phone in your hands when your car engine is running. The fine is 100€ and one point inyour drivers file. You lose your driverslicense with 8 points you will lose your license.

[EccentricM]

Yeah, and then you get people like this... 

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/canadian-driver-caught-with-phone-and-tablet-tied-to-steering-wheel-a3693501.html

[Sequoia]

My cousin who is an elder is a Fireman and Paramedic.

 

One of the scenes he was called to one day involved a teenage girl who was texting while  driving.  She ended up hitting a four year old and sadly the child died.  The child was already

deceased when the Paramedics got there.

 

It's so sad.   It goes to show that we should always be careful.

[juliansan]

Once I read a newspaper article about a man who hit a person with his car and the victim died. The driver was a brother. The article stated he was disfellowshiped because of bloodguiltiness later

[Tortuga]

19 hours ago, juliansan said:

Once I read a newspaper article about a man who hit a person with his car and the victim died. The driver was a brother. The article stated he was disfellowshiped because of bloodguiltiness later

The newspaper reported that he was disfellowshipped? 

[juliansan]

40 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

The newspaper reported that he was disfellowshipped? 

 

Yes, they did. I can't find the article at the moment. But I will post the link if I find it. 

[sunshine]

Very powerful.  Kids just don't think- they are not selfish or insensitive at the ad shows its just our technological age makes us all a little stupid. Smartphones burst onto the world scene before we had the time to process its impact and this is the result.  

[Friends just call me Ross]

I don't know how many of you remember that I lost a great nephew last February.

His Mom plowed into the back of a county road grader while driving him to school.

 

Well, I recently was informed that she may have been (and most likely was) texting and driving at the time.

 

The most unbelievable part for me to swallow is that she is STILL texting and driving to this very day.

[Sequoia]

1 minute ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

I don't know how many of you remember that I lost a great nephew last February.

His Mom plowed into the back of a county road grader while driving him to school.

 

Well, I recently was informed that she may have been (and most likely was) texting and driving at the time.

 

The most unbelievable part for me to swallow is that she is STILL texting and driving to this very day.

I'm so sorry to hear that.

[SheyZ]

I don't know how many of you remember that I lost a great nephew last February.
His Mom plowed into the back of a county road grader while driving him to school.
 
Well, I recently was informed that she may have been (and most likely was) texting and driving at the time.
 
The most unbelievable part for me to swallow is that she is STILL texting and driving to this very day.

OMG I'm so sickened to hear this. look forward to meeting him in paradise... a sad reminder to keep your eyes on the road...


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[dove]

17 minutes ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

I don't know how many of you remember that I lost a great nephew last February.

His Mom plowed into the back of a county road grader while driving him to school.

 

Well, I recently was informed that she may have been (and most likely was) texting and driving at the time.

 

The most unbelievable part for me to swallow is that she is STILL texting and driving to this very day.

What does it take if the loss of a son doesn’t make her hate texting and driving..

Edited November 22, 2017 by Dove