December
13, 2011
National Transportation Safety Board issues ban on cell phone use.
This
is why. A 19 year old driver texted 11 times in 11 minutes
before causing this deadly crash in which he was killed.
His
last text was just before his pickup crashed into the back of this
tractor truck,
beginning a chain collision. Then his pickup was rear-ended by a school
bus, which in turn was rammed from behind by a second school bus.
Many
of the most frequent texting-while-driving offenders use this rationale:
"I will have no problem. I'm on the road with nothing else to
do, anyway." They fail to realize that driving a 2 ton vehicle through traffic
is a risky task.