Toyota Tundra tows boat in more ways than one!

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Man you guys must have ESP or something right? So what was the cause of rear end crashes BEFORE cell phones? Maybe just maybe she looked down at the radio, or she might have looked in the mirror or just maybe the guy in the Toyota's brake lights may not have been working.

She may have been distracted but to condemn her sight on seen? Really, Nine out of ten cops I see driving either have a cell phone up to the their ear or are looking at the laptop sitting off to the right in their vehicle. What makes that all right?

Don

Cops should not do it either! Same for cops. If they cause a crash while using a cell phone then same thing... CRIME and punishment.

As to the lady... We merely conjectured based on current human behavior and real live statistics. As to all the other stuff I noted in my rant... I do not care if it was this lady, a cop or anyone else... The driver makes a concious choice to shove it in their ear or hold it in their hand instead of performing the complicated tasks of driving the car JUST as does the drunk driver makes a concious decision to get boozed up and then drive.

The worst part is that the person using the phone is not impaired at the time they make th e decision to perform the foolish and dangerous act so they are fully capable of NOT picking up that phone.

That is why I believe causing a crash while talking on or texting on a phone should be a crime and should be harshly punished and should demand severe restitution to those injured by the actions of that driver.

As to the excuse of the radio and other things... that is a bunch of garbage as well. Stupid car manufacturers build too much distracting junk in to vehicles these days and this should stop.

Certainly one could look away long enough to cause a crash by adjusting the radio but that is not as frequent as cell phone distraction is these days.

ple need to understand that driving a vehicle is just as complicated and requires just as much attention to the task as does flying an airplane... if not more. You are in control of between two and twenty TONS of machinery careening down the highway at between 40 and 80 miles per hour... PAY ATTENTION or pay the consequences!