A teenager hailing for Massachusetts is being ordered to spend a year in jail, because of 'texting while driving'! Seems a little overboard right? Well, it does until you find out the teen was 'texting while driving' and caused a car crash that ended up killing someone!
My father would always quote something he heard on a talk radio show "some one who is texting while driving only has 30% of their attention on the road." It wasn't long till my dad adopted a much more generic version of the proverb, "some one who is being distracted by something, only has 30% of their focus on what ever activity they say their doing(driving, working, even holding a conversation)".
Regardless even though the volume by which my dad says this is annoying, I just can't help by agree that it's true. And the courts in Mass. even went as far as to say that, as big as a responsibility driving is, only giving 30% of your attention towards it, is illegal.
This girl learned the same lesson in two hard ways...
A) Vehicular manslaughter. That can't be an easy pill to swallow.
B) How about 12 months of your life behind bars... rough.
and to boot this 18 year old was only texting two minutes before the crash... not enough to keep the law, making it illegal to injury someone while texting, from coming crashing down on him.
One shining glimmer of hope for this young gun, is he was only 17 at the time of the crash. So his prison sentence got reduced... a little.
Better luck next time
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227822/Mass._teen_gets_year_in_jail_for_fatal_texting_crash
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