Can you drive and text message at the same time??

[disneysnowflake]

Well, the girl in front of me today couldn't.

We got behind a lady who left a McDonalds parking lot. She sat at a green light and didn't move through until someone behind us beeped.
She went to turn left and didn't look at the traffic coming right at her. She was hit on the passenger side where her son was sitting.

The police came. No one was injured. The entire time the traffic was stopped she was still text messaging. I guess it was really important.

I've never text messaged, so perhaps I don't know.

Can you text message and drive a vehicle at the same time? Or is it just that certain people can text message and drive.

To me it seems like playing a video game and driving. KWIM?

Just asking.

 

[ducklite]

Not safely you can't.

Anne

 

[Aurora63]

No, I can't do it either. But I've never sent a text message. Unless the DIS boards count.

 

[DVCLiz]

I can easliy talk on my cell phone and drive carefully, but there is no way I believe anyone could text and drive. You have to type individual keys in order to text - I just don't think you could safely do it and drive under any circumstance.

 

[LiteBrite]

I'm pretty good at texting but I would never attempt it while driving.

 

[EthansMom]

There was an article I read within the last 6 months or so about a famous (bi)cycler who was hit and killed by a motorist. The driver of the car was a minor girl who was text messaging while driving. My recollection is that she spent no time in jail.

 

[Feralpeg]

Just before Thanksgiving, a boy who attends the school where I teach reached for his cell phone while driving. He ran into the back of a woman who had stopped to make a left turn. He didn't see her and didn't break at all. He was speeding. The woman died.

Cell phones and cars do not mix! I lived most of my life without a cell phone. People can survive the few minutes it takes to drive somewhere without one. I wish they were illegal in Florida.

 

[TinkerBess_SnowTori]

a friend of mine recently rear ended a woman while she was texting and after she had a couple of beers (she was on a beer run)

drives me crazy - oh and BTW - my alcholic friend says the beer had nothing to do with the accident so it must just have been the texting

 

[Luv'sTink]

No one should even think they can, but so many do!

I can barely sit and text forget about driving or walking for that matter!

BTW, text messaging, to me, is dumb!

 

[Virgo10]

Just before Thanksgiving, a boy who attends the school where I teach reached for his cell phone while driving. He ran into the back of a woman who had stopped to make a left turn. He didn't see her and didn't break at all. He was speeding. The woman died.

Cell phones and cars do not mix! I lived most of my life without a cell phone. People can survive the few minutes it takes to drive somewhere without one. I wish they were illegal in Florida.

Ditto! A while back the Mythbusters did a show on which was more dangerous... a blood alcohol level just SLIGHTLY over the legal limit or driving while talking on a cell phone. The cell phone turned out to be the more dangerous of the two. Granted this wasn't a scientific study but, like Peg said, we managed to live most of our lives without talking on a cell phone (never mind trying to text message!! ) and driving. If the call is really that important, pull over and take it or make it. Sorry, unless you're talking life or death, it can wait.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

My sister has had 2 accidents (yes, TWO) while doing what she calls "text fighting" with a boyfriend. Luckily, nobody was hurt either time, but it could have potentially been very dangerous. It's been expensive for her.... she totalled her car last time hitting construction medians.

 

[Donald - my hero]

As far as I am concerend .... NO phone, no coffee, not eating and no taking time to LOOK at radio dial to change it

YOU ARE DRIVING!!! It takes only seconds to miss a light changing colour, a small child stepping into the crosswalk another car switching lanes.

Oh and cell phones in public: hubby carries one only for car ER's since it is very old. As well it is his "business line" It is always on vibrate and he only take the call when he can be in private. Only peeps who should take a call when out with others ... a doc who is waiting to help deliver babes

Ok ok time to step down sorry

 

[azgal81]

That just sounds like a bad idea.

 

[Hedy]

Nope.

 

[crazyforgoofy]

If I HAVE to answer a txt msg I pull over and stop. Not hard to do. As for cell phones being a diversion I don't completely agree. I can talk to the person sitting next to me while I drive safely, why can't I talk to the person on the phone while driving?

 

[Fairy Dust]

I would never do it, you can't concentrate and text at the same time.

Using a mobile phone whilst driving are against the law here anyway.

 

[crazyforgoofy]

If I HAVE to answer a txt msg I pull over and stop. Not hard to do. As for cell phones being a diversion I don't completely agree. I can talk to the person sitting next to me while I drive safely, why can't I talk to the person on the phone while driving?

 

[katerkat]

I can talk on the phone with an earpiece (handsfree dialing, too) and drink coffee and talk to my kid, etc, but I would never text while driving. (I might at a stop sign with no one behind me. ) And I'm a fairly good texter.