Jan 20
A Close Call With A Cell-phoning Driver
Eddie, my dog, and I were walking and nearly home when a pickup truck charged past a stop sign at a cross street, just stopping 18” from my right leg. The woman at the wheel was talking on a cell phone, oblivious to our presence until the last second.
The evidence clearly shows that it is not just punching buttons or texting that makes phones dangerous while driving - it’s the loss of consciousness and focus.
Conversations require concentration that take focus away from the task at hand.
Conversations engender emotions, and the emotional brain will, when stimulated, shut down the cognitive process. Your awareness, thinking ability and reaction are all either shut down or limited making you, studies prove, as dangerous as someone who is DUI.
If you want to take your life in your car, that’s your choice. Please don’t take mine or anyone else’s. Please get it.
As surely as drinking and driving are a killing combination, so is talking on your cell phone while driving.
Please stop talking and drive or pull over and talk while stopped.
