Wednesday, September 16, 2009
This Video Delivers a Powerful Message on Distracted Driving
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My friend Deborah posted a video clip, One Bad Decision, on her facebook page today. The kid in the clip is a friend of one of her sons.
They all live near here.The police officers, EMTs, nurses and surgeons are local. So is the video production company.
But the message is UNIVERSAL and so important to us all in this age of ever more “distracted drivers.”
Yeah, it’s painful to watch.
And yes, you’ve likely heard it before.
But watch it anyway.
And then pass it on.
Send it to everyone you know.
Even if you think they know better.
Oh, and grab a box of tissues.
Repeat after me: I will not drink and drive. I will not text and drive. I will not phone and drive.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Hooray–National Safety Council Proposes a Ban on Cell Phones While Driving
Who would have thought that the National Safety Council would make my year? And on only the 12th of January?
To my way of thinking, drivers who insist on talking on their cellphones are, and have been, a menace and a scourge on our society for the last ten years. So I can NOT begin to tell you how thrilled –no– make that ECSTATIC — I am at the news that the U.S. National Safety Council is proposing a ban on cell phones while driving in all 50 states!
I wish the NSC as much success with this program as they had with seat belts and infant car seats.
I am, after all, the woman who sports a bumper sticker that reads “HANG UP AND DRIVE”. I refuse to answer my phone while driving. And no, I really don’t think that hands-free is any better. ( And neither do the NSC studies.) I don’t know why, I can’t explain it. I just know I can carry on a conversation with a person sitting in the car and that’s not half as distracting as talking on a cellphone. It’s long been my view that cell phones and cars do not mix, kind of like alcohol and cars do not mix.
ALLELUIA… where do I send my contribution for this campaign to begin?
Now please excuse me, while I write to Jon Corzine, the current governor of New Jersey, who, in case you do not live on the East Coast and did not hear, was very NEARLY KILLED about 18 months ago when the driver of his official car was TEXTING as he drove the UNSEATBELTED governer to an event, going an estimated 90 MPH, in the left lane of the GARDEN STATE PARKWAY. Perhaps the good governor (who I happen to like very much) was spared by the powers-that-be for this exact purpose …so that he could be THE FIRST to sign the proposal into law?
