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Cell Phones + Driving = Death (or near death)
I'm sure you have all seen those statistics saying something like 80% of all car-accidents involve cell phones.
well
believe it
I just expereinced it first hand.
at around 3:45pm on Sunday, my friend, my roomate and I were driving back from spring break down to our University.
My roomate was driving.
He got a call on his phone, and began talking on it, like he had done so many other times.
I was in the back passenger-side seat (it was a 2000 Dodge Durango), trying to get some half-assed sleep.
I glanced up at the window and noticed we were veering dangerously close to the white Ford Explorer in the lane to our right.
My roomate didnt notice...cause of his phone convo no doubt...
me and my friend noticed tho, and we yelled out "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?"
My roomate grabbed the steering wheel, and turned it to the left, but he overcompensated...and in an SUV going 70 we started fishtaling violently as he made a vain attempt to gain control over the car.
The next few seconds were just...a complete blur...
at some point my roomate must've hit the breaks, but we were already careening off to the side of the road.
we spun around and hit the guard rail to our left
the car flipped over...twice
we landed, roof down, two lanes over to our right...
After a few seconds of sitting there, strapped into my seatbelt upsidedown in complete shock, I managed to free my seatbelt and plopped out of my seat face down into a pile of broken glass.
I glanced around...I could see people outside on the road coming to help, me and my friend began asking eachother if we were alright.
thankgod we were.
I looked back an noticed that all the rear windows had been blown out, our luggage was strewn back over the past quarter-mile of highway. If I hadn't been wearing my seat belt, I would've been a piece of that highway as well.
God bless the passerbys who pulled me and my friends out of that wreck, and gave us water, and let us use thier phones.
they were fucking saints
so were the emt, and firemen.
I can only hope I would've done the same if I were in their shoes.
as I stood outside, looking around at the wreck, with millions of pieces of glass in every part of my body and blood streaming down my arm and head, still shellshocked, one of the women who had helped us out mentioned "You guys are lucky that guardrail stopped you like it did, your car almost flipped into that ravine, and you would've all been dead."
a few other witnesses commented how they were astonished that none of us were killed.
Later on, my roomate told me that as one of the men was pulling him out of the crash, the man had said to him to hurry up, because the gas tank could explode at any second, incinerating us all.
I just got back from the hospital.
Im taking a bunch of pain-killers, hopping in the shower, and going to sleep, and hoping I can move my neck when I wake up.
DON'T FUCKING USE YOUR CELL PHONES WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!
Since the start of the year there has been a law in Finland that says you have to use a hands-free device in a car when talking to a phone.
Every country should do the same.
my cell phone has speakerphone
thank God you are okay babes 
holy shit man. thank your lucky starts your alive
you'll start to forget things about the accident as days go by, try to write em down so u can remember all details.
i've been there before, not from a cell phone, but from playing with the car stereo, smashed up my first car that way.
now i have a remote for my stereo and a hands-free kit for the cell.
helps alot.
good thing you guys are OK
holy shit reuben, thank God you're ok..i don't even know wot to say but you're totally 100% right, don't use cell phones in cars withouth the headset...
i'm praying for you and your friends..
OMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGG...i thought you were lying to me
thank god ur alive 
Holy shit man! Glad you're ok...fucking drivers and cell phones...
. There's a law here that says you have to use the hands free type as well, hopefully more people will do that.
damn, glad to hear your alive and kickin.... thats why i never use cell phones, that and cuz i cant afford them lol
Dammm man... thank goodness ur allright.. here in au.. its illegal to talk and drive... we gotta have hands free devices... but ppl still freken do it... so annoying i tell yah...
and worst is that people smoke and drive as well.. like wats with that... isn't it the same thing???
btw LuNaSeA... by your av.. you are drop dead cute 
im glad to hear your ok. my brother on the other had...he got into a car accident last night. his car wrapped around a phone pole...took the jaws of life an hour and a half to get him out. almost every bone in his body is broken and they tried to fly him flight for life but it was too foggy for it to land.
he was drinking a few hours before the accident. a few beers. friends took his keys for a while but once they fell asleep around 330 he got up and found where they hid them and left.
dont drink and drive...and friends dont let their friends drive drunk.
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| Originally posted by Sugarbean im glad to hear your ok. my brother on the other had...he got into a car accident last night. his car wrapped around a phone pole...took the jaws of life an hour and a half to get him out. almost every bone in his body is broken and they tried to fly him flight for life but it was too foggy for it to land. he was drinking a few hours before the accident. a few beers. friends took his keys for a while but once they fell asleep around 330 he got up and found where they hid them and left. dont drink and drive...and friends dont let their friends drive drunk. |
well i hope the best for all the people dealing with trauma in this thread...
i think cell phones and driving are a nuisance, but not necessarily because of the phones. i actually think that most drivers arent aware enough with or without cell phones to drive at all. when you add the phone thats what causes accidents. i used a cell at work when i was delivering auto parts, and if you actually pay attention and slow down and be careful- it shouldnt matter. most drivers dont realize that they are piloting a heavy piece of machinery alongside others doing the same, and all those stupid people in one place make accidents very very likely.
i do agree that handfree devices are helpful- but who is to say that someone wont fuck up while dialing, etc? its not a solution until people actually learn to drive and drive responsibly|best wishes to all
i amg glad you are alright and alive. i will never used a cellphone on the highway and anywhere else again. i think u have an guardian angel watching ur back. or may the trance be with you
Woah, now that's a bad one 
Glad your ok man!!!
But not to sound like a dick because you almost just died and all, but you can't really JUST blame the cell phone man - It's also the person using the cell phone has a big part in it too not staying alert and stuff. True, if it wasn't for the cell phone you wouldn't of gotten in the accident, but if your friend was paying attenshion (spelling?) like he was saposed to, then you wouldn't of gotten in the accident either. So I still think using cell phones are allright while driving, depending on the persons driving abilities of course and how capable they are staying alert while talking.
thank God ur alright dude - very glad everyone is ok. really brings you face to face with mortality and reality. plus ur my good friend so it really hits home for me as well.
when you called, i was just about to take a nap. and thinking how calm of a mindset i was in, and comparing it to what had happened to you, it put me in a very uneasy mindsed - i was very relaxed, but 600 miles away, you were almost killed. I couldn't feel your pain. And when i had heard what had happened, it stopped me in my tracks and i was really mortified. when i heard that you were ok, i was relieved, yet the thought of you almost dying really devastated me. i'm very lucky and glad to have you as a friend.
peacE bro
Glad to hear you are ok....
That kinda shit has almost happened to me so many times that I should be dead by now...skidded on ice, woke up before I almost drove off a bridge etc.
Your friend prolly turned the steering wheel sharply in one direction, and then sharply in the opposite direction in a short period of time (like within 1 sec apart). THAT'S THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO IN AN SUV, because of the higher center of gravity it rolls over. I've seen demonstrations of that maneuver (when they have those little training wheel things on) including a Durango and izuzu trooper and I think a land cruiser. They all flipped over when the driver did that. The really bad thing is that is something you might do to avoid an obstacle in the road etc. 
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| Originally posted by bassaholix Dammm man... thank goodness ur allright.. here in au.. its illegal to talk and drive... we gotta have hands free devices... but ppl still freken do it... so annoying i tell yah... and worst is that people smoke and drive as well.. like wats with that... isn't it the same thing??? btw LuNaSeA... by your av.. you are drop dead cute |
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| Originally posted by DaveSaenz I had a double take when I saw her avatar too..... Hope that's really U haha. I thought JP loveparade's avatar was her (him) too for a while. |
gald you're ok. every country should ban using cell-phones in cars
and u see people a seat belt is needed!!!
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