Since California’s cell phone law recently went into effect I thought we would be hearing less about the unsafe practices of drivers. One might think drivers would understand the correlation between being distracted on a cell phone and a high accident rate would carry over to other distractions as well. But it appears that since driver’s can no longer talk on their cell phones they have resorted to texting instead. Maybe the law isn’t clear or maybe it is just me, but isn’t texting even more dangerous.
With kids in the car screaming and mom texting whoever, the distractions of driving are making our roads even more unsafe then they once were. Don’t get me wrong, I love technology and like being able to stay in touch as much as I can. But, especially when shuttling kids around town, I would hope we could all put our toys away and pay as much attention to driving as safely as we can. It is bad enough that we take risks with our own lives, but we should be more careful with children around.
The law may not have banned every distraction and it can’t. But it should be a wake-up call to pay more attention to what we are doing. It is sad that so many people will watch what they eat and get plenty of exercise in hopes of living a longer and healthier life. They then get in a car and and forget the number of lives that have been ruined or shortened in a crash.
This is not another public service announcement, just a concerned parent reading about to many accidents that could have been prevented.