Driving and mobiles: a deadly combination

Tue,03 Nov 2009 07:14 GMT -4:00 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30559

- In one hour, Phillipa Curtis (right) sent more than 20 messages to friends, some of the texts bragging “about serving singer Dina Carroll at the restaurant where she worked,” said the Daily Mail in February this year.

But her preoccupation with texting lead directly to the death of another young woman.

Because Curtis, now 22, “plowed” her car into the rear Victoria McBryde’s vehicle, which’d broken down on Britain’s A40 Motorway , “killing Ms. McBryde, 24, instantly,” says the New York Times in an article that’s part of a series examining the “dangers of drivers using cellphones and other electronic devices, and efforts to deal with the problem”.

She was was remanded for 21 months to a high-security women’s prison, says the story.

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Daily Mail – Driver who sent texts at the wheel jailed over fatal crash, February 3, 2009

New York Times – When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison, November 1, 2009




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