I feel honour bound to point out not only that I don't text'n'drive but I haven't associated with young teen aged girls for a long time. Not since the magistrate advised me strongly against it.It does appear to me that texting while driving is now almost the norm around, especially with young teenage girls.*
Could the rise in pedestrian deaths and injuries also be due to more and more people wearing headphones and not being able to hear oncoming cars. Also texting while walking and completely oblivious to everything else going on around them.
he was texting gggrrr
Traffic cops routinely check for texting and mobile-phoning activity when they investigate fatalities.
and how would you stop it? we have a limited number of police officers and we don't have cctv and mobile phone monitoring in every car.Nice that they take an interest after the event... shame they do nothing to stop texting and driving BEFORE someone is killed.
Could the rise in pedestrian deaths and injuries also be due to more and more people wearing headphones and not being able to hear oncoming cars. Also texting while walking and completely oblivious to everything else going on around them.
On the other hand, yesterday while driving the electric truck through town, a man walked straight out in front of us and dawdled across, and he wasn't holding a phone or anything, just utterly unaware. Either of us (bright yellow vehicle) or the bus behind us.
There's a left turn we make on the way back to base, from a main road into a side road, and watching people walking along the pavement you can generally guess which ones are going to look before they step across the side road. We're always going dead slow anyway in case. Also yesterday, there was a woman standing in the middle of this side road, with a pram, calling back to a small child who was yet to cross.