Teen Driver Kills Girl While Texting - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

nightfighter · 08-26-2009, 11:59 AM

The story will come out. This was a good friend of my daughter's. Driver was reportedly texting when he struck her......

http://www.salemnews.com/punews/loca...237223305.html

PaulS · 08-26-2009, 12:50 PM

Ross, sorry to hear that.

There was a story on the 6:00 national news yesterday about someone in Scotland who produced a 30 second staged clip of a horrific car accident that was caused by a girl texting. Much of the story was about people saying it was too graphic. They aught to show it here every night and make kids watch it before their driving test.

JohnR · 08-26-2009, 01:36 PM

My truck was rear ended a few years ago by a girl texting near Salve.

I have watched 3 almost accidents plus some simply bad driving the past few weeks whilke people text and drive.

BigFish · 08-26-2009, 02:26 PM

The road is filled with idiots!!!! You know how many times a day I have people crossing the median into my lane headed right at me because they are on the friggin phone/texting!!!!!! Has to be at least 3/4 times a day! One of these days someone will hit me....and if I am able...I will pull them from their vehicle and beat them to death with that little box!!!!

So sorry Ross for your families loss. So damn unnecessary!

Raven · 08-26-2009, 03:23 PM

i don't get it..........

we have the technology for voice recognition
so that you don't have to be looking down at
a key pad at all....

if sending a message is that friggan important....

That Girl was so beautiful .....such a waste of
Life over something so insignificant as texting.

Every day it's on the news people dying because of it.

very SAD story... Sorry Ross for the loss of your friend.

maddog2020 · 08-26-2009, 09:09 PM

When I gave my old cell phone to my daughter, I had them shut off the ability to text and go online. I figured that it wasn't something that she was going to start doing.

That isn't to say that people don't get into accidents when they drive and talk on the phone!

Imagine how many people have gotten into car accidents playing with their radio/looking for another station with a better tune.

Sorry for your family's loss. It hits kids real hard at that age. All we can hope for is that other teens will learn from this. Very sad indeed.

Rockport24 · 08-27-2009, 02:54 PM

oh man this is just horrible....

this is certainly a good reason to pass some laws about this stuff

justplugit · 08-27-2009, 03:17 PM

Sorry to hear NF. That poor family will never get over it.

What could be so important that you need to text somebody
while your driving ??????
We had a State car cell phone law passed about
a year ago, and i see very little difference in the number of people
i still see driving while phoning.
The penalty should be the same as DUI.

Raven · 08-27-2009, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by justplugit

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i still see driving while phoning.
The penalty should be the same as DUI.

if i see a cell phone being used
i consider them drunk, armed, and dangerous

nightfighter · 08-27-2009, 05:26 PM

Driver was high school senior from next town. Obviously devastating for him and his family. Cooperating fully, stayed at scene, may have made the 911 call. Feel badly for the kid.

Stories going around...not confirmed...

1.Driver was 'distracted', according to chief of police. Possibly was texting.

2.Victim was in crosswalk, dropped phone, went back and was bent over when struck.

What I do know from a doctor who was on the scene, was that Allie was gone, never knew what hit her, had no brain activity when she was loaded into the ambulance. She was kept 'alive' long enough for her mother to get back in town.

Wake this evening, funeral tomorrow. I will see the parents after. Better for me as opposed to with the masses that will be there today and tomorrow. Streets already posted to be closed around church. Town is a wreck.

Police chief's advice; "When your kid gets behind the wheel of a car, have them throw their cell phone in the back seat....."

justplugit · 08-27-2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by nightfighter

Wake this evening, funeral tomorrow. I will see the parents after. ....."

That is when the parents and family will need you the most.
My experience is people don't want to bother people when they're
mourning days and weeks after the services, but that is when they need their friends the most.

Slipknot · 08-27-2009, 03:37 PM

Ross, that is awful. I saw it on the news the other day.
What a shame. Condolences to her family and friends.

I noticed in news articles that they weren't releasing the name of the driver

maybe someone of importance or they are respecting privacy or something.
Terrible thing to happen

Rockport24 · 08-27-2009, 04:35 PM

if the person was texting while driving, maybe another teenager?

GattaFish · 08-27-2009, 11:23 PM

It sucks,,,, What a shame,,,,,,,

A few months ago I had a kid come across the yellow line and almost hit me head on,,, Somehow after going off the road I avoided the head on but he hit me on the drivers side door and totaled my truck,, Tore the rear axle right out of the truck,,,, He was Texting,,,,

Texting while driving is going to become an even bigger issue than it already is,,,

Offshore24 · 08-28-2009, 06:17 AM

What are all the studies saying? It's 5x more dangerous to be texting than drunk? That right there is chilling. That's a really sad story. I feel for the victim and her family. I think there do need to be laws against texting while driving.