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Originally Posted by Russ B
It happened in the UK - therefore it was a MOBILE phone 
Awesome - within 10 minutes of the story breaking there was a thread on Digital Spy saying he wouldn't have had the same sentence had he been white but the mods took it down 
But seriously, he should have known better. The Sky website has a story of a paramedic who was photographed texting while he was driving his vehicle and even had a patient in the back at the time. |
yes I got annoyed about seeing a cellphone mentioned too
Not sure where Andy is from though so that could explain things.
It seems the police report has stated the texting didn't impact the crash but i'm not sure if that is true, even if it happened before the crash site he was obviously having a text conversation and so would have been waiting for a reply etc and so would have been distracted by that.
There was another one a few weeks back where a woman was texting and managed to get up to speeds of 70 mph and killed a woman who was changing a tyre of a parked car. The woman who killed her didn't think texting while driving was a problem but if you can get the car up to 70 and not notice then surely you aren't paying any attention.
If people got longer sentences for these then maybe drivers would be more aware of their surroundings