Well, this was predictable.
Jul 5, 2011 17:46:05 GMT -5
Post by Lamron on Jul 5, 2011 17:46:05 GMT -5
Even though every study shows that banning texting dramatically increases accidents ( www.google.com/search?q=texting+ban+more+accidents ), last Friday Indiana stupidly passed a new law banning texting. Its a lot harder to drive when you're trying to focus on a cellphone hidden down on your lap than when you hold it up on the stearing wheel so you can actually watch the road. The ban has no effect on the number of people texting, it just forces them to do it dangerously.
Predictably, it didn't take long for Hoosiers to start crashing into things.
Indiana Man Texting While Driving Crashes Through Building
RICHMOND, Ind. – A man who was texting while driving has driven his vehicle through a Richmond business days after an Indiana law banning the practice went into effect.
The Palladium-Item reports 21-year-old Lucas Harrison of Connersville told police he was texting and driving at the time of the crash Tuesday afternoon.
Harrison's vehicle went over a curb and narrowly missed a sign post before driving through Grandview Medical Equipment and coming out the other side of the building.
No one was injured.
Richmond police said Harrison would be issued a traffic ticket for illegal use of a telecommunications device.
An Indiana ban on texting while driving went into effect Friday.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/05/indiana-man-texting-while-driving-crashes-through-building/#ixzz1RH0oXFOQ
Predictably, it didn't take long for Hoosiers to start crashing into things.
Indiana Man Texting While Driving Crashes Through Building
RICHMOND, Ind. – A man who was texting while driving has driven his vehicle through a Richmond business days after an Indiana law banning the practice went into effect.
The Palladium-Item reports 21-year-old Lucas Harrison of Connersville told police he was texting and driving at the time of the crash Tuesday afternoon.
Harrison's vehicle went over a curb and narrowly missed a sign post before driving through Grandview Medical Equipment and coming out the other side of the building.
No one was injured.
Richmond police said Harrison would be issued a traffic ticket for illegal use of a telecommunications device.
An Indiana ban on texting while driving went into effect Friday.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/05/indiana-man-texting-while-driving-crashes-through-building/#ixzz1RH0oXFOQ