Cell phones and accidents - FFCobra.com

TD · 08-27-2009, 11:36 PM

A recent thread about texting and driving got me thinking.
Does any one have a good story of someone on "the other end" in an accident?

My Dad calls me while parked ( I didn't know this). A minute into the conversation I hear a loud DAM and he shouts G@D D@M it.
He tried to back out and hit a pole.
It felt good to call him the same names he used on me as a teenager.
We both laugh about it today.

TD · 08-30-2009, 06:55 PM

You mean noone heard an accident on the "other end"?

simpsoncobra25 · 08-30-2009, 07:49 PM

I was talking to my buddy whe he was appoaching RR tracks the person in front of him pannicked when the lights started to ring and Tried to stop but skidded into the tracks and my buddy rearended her and all I heard was profanity and caos and then "I'll call you back" click.
It was pretty funny when he called back no one was hurt.

NAGA · 08-30-2009, 09:19 PM

Listen to this one.
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http://videos.streetfire.net/video/a...all_158010.htm

dirtfarmer69 · 08-31-2009, 05:30 PM

Most accidents are caused by a short - circuit between the driver's seat and the steering wheel. Feelgood legislation is just that. How about Smoking, Drinking (a coffee, for instance) Trying to talk to people in the back seat, ... how about the fools who drive around with a dog, cat or other animal IN THEIR LAP!

Laws only take away our freedom, you cannot legislate away STUPID.

JayP · 08-31-2009, 05:42 PM

There was one up this way on news a while back - couple years at least.

Woman crashed her car on Rt 93 & was killed while on phone with husband.

guysmiley · 08-31-2009, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by NAGA

Listen to this one.
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http://videos.streetfire.net/video/a...all_158010.htm

I haven't laughed that hard in a looooong time! Thanks,

Garrick.

Mike D · 08-31-2009, 06:02 PM

Not a wreck but my wife ran a red and got a photo ticket while she was calling me to ask for directions.

I kept the picture on the fridge for as long as I could.

guysmiley · 08-31-2009, 06:04 PM

A friend of mine was rear ended while he was on the phone with me. Stopped at a red light and someone ran into the back of him. There was some swearing.

Garrick.

Cory · 08-31-2009, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike D

Not a wreck but my wife ran a red and got a photo ticket while she was calling me to ask for directions.

I kept the picture on the fridge for as long as I could.

Oh you've got to post that!!!!!!!

hoofa · 08-31-2009, 06:31 PM

By Megan Tench, Globe Staff, 11/2/2003

A 20-year-old Abington woman died early yesterday after she lost control of her car while talking on a cellphone and crashed into the wall of a cellphone store, police said.

Authorities were investigating the accident, but it appeared Bethanie Lawton was talking on her cellphone at the time of the crash, Officer Ray Rogers of the West Bridgewater Police Department said.

"She was on her cellphone talking to a girlfriend when she told her friend, `I'm having an accident,' " said Rogers. "It appears that she lost control of the car due to inattention to the road, and she was obviously going faster than the posted 25 miles per hour speed limit."

According to police reports, it was after midnight when Lawton dropped her friend off in West Bridgewater after attending a Halloween party.

Around 1 a.m., Rogers said, a Plymouth County police officer driving on Route 106 heard an alarm sounding from inside a nearby Cingular Wireless store. When he went to investigate, Rogers said, he found Lawton's 1999 Mercury Cougar crashed through the store's brick wall.

"The girl was trapped inside the vehicle," he said.

Fire officials, along with a volunteer firefighter who is also an emergency room doctor, raced to the scene, eventually removing Lawton from the car. Lawton suffered a heart attack while in the ambulance, Rogers said.

Lawton was not wearing a safety belt, police said.