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Text-messaging driver kills cyclist
One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition
to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Please review the petition and consider signing. The life you save, .... http://www.petitiononline.com/7474355/petition.html Of course, this doesn't solve the larger 'distracted driver' issue, but it's a step ... and, IMO, a good one. -- Live simply so that others may simply live |
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Text-messaging driver kills cyclist
Neil Brooks writes:
One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. -- Robert Uhl http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people... --Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Club Dumas |
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Text-messaging driver kills cyclist
Robert Uhl wrote:
Neil Brooks writes: One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? Then don't sign it ... and cite your source for that info, if you don't mind. I'm pretty incredulous. This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. Only in the strictest sense (no clear intent). Otherwise, it was both foreseeable and preventable. That, exactly, is the point. -- Live simply so that others may simply live |
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Robert Uhl wrote:
Neil Brooks writes: One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. Yeah it was an accident, caused by some young teenage yutz how deserves more time to think about what he did than a year in prison. Ken |
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Ken M wrote:
Robert Uhl wrote: Neil Brooks writes: One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. Yeah it was an accident, caused by some young teenage yutz how deserves more time to think about what he did than a year in prison. Like I said, pull his licence for 10 years, every day as he schleps along on the bus, bike (wouldn't that be ironic) or on foot, or begs rides from friends, yutz gets to think about what he did. Every time someone asks him, why he doesn't drive and he has to explain, yutz gets to think about what he did. This would be a far more fitting penalty, and for a 17 year old, much more serious penalty then a year in jail. Driving is a privilege not a right, and if you abuse that privilege then it should be taken away from you. I think the same about drunk drivers, get a DUI, lose your licence, period. This would also not cost the state taxpayers much if anything. W |
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The Wogster wrote:
Ken M wrote: Robert Uhl wrote: Neil Brooks writes: One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. Yeah it was an accident, caused by some young teenage yutz how deserves more time to think about what he did than a year in prison. Like I said, pull his licence for 10 years, every day as he schleps along on the bus, bike (wouldn't that be ironic) or on foot, or begs rides from friends, yutz gets to think about what he did. Every time someone asks him, why he doesn't drive and he has to explain, yutz gets to think about what he did. This would be a far more fitting penalty, and for a 17 year old, much more serious penalty then a year in jail. Driving is a privilege not a right, and if you abuse that privilege then it should be taken away from you. I think the same about drunk drivers, get a DUI, lose your licence, period. This would also not cost the state taxpayers much if anything. W Ok, now your punishment sounds like a reasonable plan for the yutz. But I also think that it should include going around the state / country talking to the soon to be teenage drivers about what he did and why they should not attempt to do something as stupid as he did! Ken -- Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy |
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"Robert Uhl" wrote in message ... Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. The word "accident" is falling into disfavor in the context of this case. "Crash" is now more prevalent. It implies a preventable incident to which negligence contributed as a root cause. People who use firearms used to refer to "ADs" for "accidental discharge". That term is giving way to ND for "negligent discharge", for the same reasons that "crash" is displacing "accident". |
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Text-messaging driver kills cyclist
Robert Uhl wrote: Neil Brooks writes: One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? This is a horrible accident, but that's just what it is: an accident. You must have seen some strange studies. Most of the ones I have seen sugest that talking on a cell phone when driving is more dangerous than driving while over the legal alcohol level. Actually text messaging might be less dangerous. John Kane Kingston ON Canada |
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Text-messaging driver kills cyclist
Neil Brooks writes:
Robert Uhl wrote: Neil Brooks writes: One of the moderators of www.bikeforums.net started an online petition to ask Congress to ban cell phones while driving, enforce the ban, and impose stiffer penalties for hurting/killing people while using their cell phone. Considering that using cell phones is less dangerous than changing radio stations, according to the numbers I've seen, what exactly is the point? Then don't sign it ... and cite your source for that info, if you don't mind. I'm pretty incredulous. My file just contains the following: Distracting factors leading to traffic accidents: - object or person outside the car 30% - adjusting the radio or CD player 11% - dealing with another occupant in the car 11% - cellular phones 1.5% --Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina And on re-reading I'd actually support stiff penalties for accidents which occur while using a cell phone. Let folks choose when to use it, but if they make the wrong choice, slap 'em down. -- Robert Uhl http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl I'm against picketing; I just don't know how to show it. --M.H. |
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