Texting While Driving? Message Sent from Driver's Phone(5 Teens killed NY) [View All]

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Source: ABC News

Text messages were sent back and forth on a 17-year-old girl's cell phone moments before her sport utility vehicle slammed head-on into a truck, killing her and four other recent high school graduates, police said Friday.


Bailey Goodman was driving her friends to her parents' vacation home when her SUV, which had just passed a car, swerved back into oncoming traffic, hit a tractor-trailer and burst into flames. Five days earlier, the five teenagers had graduated together from high school in Fairport, a Rochester suburb.


Goodman's inexperience at the wheel, evidence she was driving above the speed limit at night on a winding, two-lane highway and a succession of calls and text messages on her phone were cited by Sheriff Phil Povero as possible factors in the June 28 crash in western New York's Finger Lakes region.


"The records indicate her phone was in use," Povero said. "We will never be able to clearly state that she was the one doing the text messaging. ....

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I'm betting you're going to see a lot of this cause young people and some adults are so in to texting. Hell, we even had a Penn State football coach in story telling how he was text messageing a recruit while the coach was driving to see next recruit! I have no problems with laws banning text messaging while driving but laws alone won't stop it.

BTW it also looks like the teen driver in this accident was driving illegaly at the time on a junior license.