Saturday, December 23, 2006
Unaware Driver + Traffic + BlackBerry = Accident Waiting to Happen
Posted by Paul Martin in "NEWS" @ 11:10 AM
"A Mercer Island man fiddling with his BlackBerry was cruising down Interstate 5's express lanes Tuesday morning in his minivan, oblivious that traffic ahead had come to a dead stop. What happened next "could have been horribly tragic," said Washington State Patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill. The 53-year-old man's minivan smashed into a car, setting off a chain reaction that included three other cars and a Community Transit bus, which was carrying 28 passengers. No one was seriously injured, but the accident near downtown Seattle underscores the dangers of driving while preoccupied with electronic gadgets, other passengers and even "driver grooming," according to a state study."
Picture from Flickr user BenZ
OK, true confessions time. How many have done something like this and just not caused an accident? I've been trying to use my audio player on my Pocket PC at times and drifted a little, enough to make me nervous. Of course, I feel free to glare at the other drivers yapping on their phones. :mrgreen:
Picture from Flickr user BenZ
OK, true confessions time. How many have done something like this and just not caused an accident? I've been trying to use my audio player on my Pocket PC at times and drifted a little, enough to make me nervous. Of course, I feel free to glare at the other drivers yapping on their phones. :mrgreen:
