Ouch: 5 years for text-messaging causing vehicular-manslaughter

[M A V I C]

I send text messages all the time while driving. It's no different than having a conversation.

Of course, I use the speech to text function on my phone...

[rz]

For those of you who admit to texting while driving, please explain to me what's so goddam important that it can't wait? Seriously.

I think 5 years was nowhere near enough. She'll probably get out in less than 2.

[BCool]

I ride a motorcycle and see people weave in and out of the lanes on a daily basis and they are texting! Please stop before you hit and kill me. Memo to CHP, please ticket these folks.

[ADent]

The first case I heard of around here about 5 years ago and the teen got zero jail time.

Now it is plainly illegal.

Hit and run is a major crime here. The prosecutors and media like to assume the driver was drunk and that is why they ran - so thinking is it should be sentenced like a DUI fatality.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

GGD wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
killing people is illegal in 47 states.

Where are the three exceptions?
Insanity and Anarchy are two.

[M A V I C]

rz wrote:
For those of you who admit to texting while driving, please explain to me what's so goddam important that it can't wait? Seriously.

It's usually no more important than whatever you might say to someone sitting in a car with you. Like I said, I use voice to text to send them so I'm not typing. I personally think those people who have to look at you while talking when they're driving are more dangerous.

[SteveO]

Please don't text and drive. A single moment can change an entire life.