The original report @
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7790336.stm
I had to read this twice ... amazing.....
...the 21-year-old said she had felt there were times when using a phone while driving was acceptable.
She told the court: "I didn't think I should be chatting away when manoeuvring roundabouts, but in the right conditions..."
Prosecutor Alan Blake replied: "In the right conditions on the M40 at 70mph?"
She added: "I probably would have slowed down."
(......had made the two-hour journey to Oxford on a dark evening when the roads were wet and after a shift )
How on earth can the message get through to a single brain cell ??
Today
'Texting' crash driver convicted
After the jury found Curtis guilty of causing death by dangerous driving on Friday afternoon, Judge Julian Hall told her she would "almost certainly" receive a prison sentence.
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What is so important that you have to interrupt something really really important to reply?
Or is the modern generation just so smitten with technology that they can't do anything without telling their mates about it?
Edited by rtj70 on 19/12/2008 at 21:13
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16:00 GMT, Friday, 19 December 2008
www.newstin.co.uk/rel/uk/en-010-008918480
Philippa Curtis will be sentenced in January (photo: INS News) A motorist has been found guilty of killing another driver after using her mobile phone to send and receive more than 20 text messages. Phillipa Curtis, 21, from... ...
{Threads merged, Rob}
Edited by rtj70 on 19/12/2008 at 23:32
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Hope it is a long sentence. Stupid, selfish moo.
Flip phones are hard to text with one handed anyway as the weight balance is all wrong. Bet she had the phone on the wheel and was spending more time looking down sending txts than she was watching where she was going.
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The long sentence should be followed by a lifetime driving ban.
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Agreed she should be sent away and banned when she is released.
The fact is many people are simply addicted to texting. Look around any high street, supermarket whatever and you will always see plenty of youngsters (majority of them girls) with phone in hand texting away.
I was at a rugby match a few months ago sat behind a young woman of 18-20. For the whole game every minute or so she looked at her phone to see if the facebook page she was browsing had changed. As soon as there was something added she was busy on the phone adding more.
Many users just get in the car and continue in a similar vein. Video streaming could make accidents involving mobiles increase at an incredible rate, unless penalties for using them are made much harsher.
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How often are you in an airport, on a train or in any other public place, seemingly surrounded by puffed up middle aged people unable to leave their blackberry alone for even a minute.
I am convinced they carry on like this when in the car too.
So sadly we'll be seing more cases like this I'm afraid.
{There is a no swearing policy...your attempt to avoid the swear filter was still obviously swearing, Rob}
Edited by rtj70 on 20/12/2008 at 21:28
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I also find it hard to believe you don't need to be talking or texting all the time... but people do???
My first phone (a GSM Ericsson back in 1996 long before they became Sony Ericsson) could receive a text but not send it. GSM network texts were not aimed at the users originally (or so I read) but for engineers on the networks etc.
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And what has happened to the MP who was also charged after a fatal car accident caused by him sending quite a number of text messages whilst driving? I seem to rember alot in the press about this a few weeks ago but I have not heard anything since? Hmm, news blackout I wonder or am I just being cynical??
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zm, I think that case is finished with and an outcome reached - he was banned.
Edit: case as adjourned to 22/12... do not discuss.
Edited by rtj70 on 20/12/2008 at 21:46
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Fair point. But won't it be interesting if he does'nt get sent down?
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Hmm news blackout I wonder or am I just being cynical??
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One rule for........?
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The case was adjourned until 22/12....
Lets leave debate/discussion until the magistrates rule... I found out some interesting info from Google but no point in posting.
Edited by rtj70 on 20/12/2008 at 21:45
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/790951...m
Texting death crash peer jailed
Snip... another thread on this.
Edited by Honestjohn on 25/02/2009 at 13:34
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