Saga of Cell Phone Accident...
Well, on our way from Nevada to Oregon we recently got into an accident. A woman driving a borrowed car while on a cell phone rammed into my Ram’s drivers side alloy dually, then sheared off the drive...
Forum Discussion
rickeoni wrote:
I have been reading all of these posts from people with a wide variety of opinions. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, most of them come from people who haven't experienced any real loss other than some material damage. The idea that lost human lives are just collateral damage is insane. Has anyone lost someone close to them due to distracted driving? I have, and I for one am glad about the increased enforcement in British Columbia. If one life can be saved it is all worth it.
Sorry to hear of your dear loss, and I too am a bit preplexed by some of the sentiments expressed (thus my stoicism), but to their credit, I can sense too that a lot of folks here are just tired of putting up with what’s seemingly a never ending stream of usury regulations and burdens being imposed upon their freedoms by an already too top heavy ‘Nanny State’...To this extent, I can only agree, and that’s why (in an ideal world) I would much prefer a passive, tech-type solution - short of this outcome, the State will likely eventually step in with a heavy handed, one size fits all clumsy remedy, often of a lesser value and in desperate search of incremental encroachments...
But then again, I suppose we have the kind of gov’t we deserve...
