Closest I've ever gotten to wrecks were traffic, and not phones.
Worst for me was, I was goin 30, down main street in town, about 2 PM, street's packed, some trailblazer trying to make a left pulls out RIGHT in front of me, and I slam on the breaks, and fishtail around him...
handsomehunk then got clipped by a F-150. Everyone was okay though. The reason was? He didn't look both ways again and again for that left.
My best friend, Joe, has half of his face, metal. Why? Because 1, someone was going 70 in a 45, and 2, he didn't look both ways again and again making a left.
Have yet to find anyone who got in a wreck talking on the phone.
the majority of the accidents i see around here are:
1) driver "daydreaming. they're sitting behind the wheel, and sorta pointing the car in a direction, and are looking our the window, but they're not "seeing" what's happening. i call these people passengers in the wrong seat. they're the ones that'll normally rear end ya.
2)teens. mostly girls...and not all girls, but attractive ones. it's like they were cut slack in the driving school, because they're cute. no one really took the time to REALLY teach them to drive. no one took the time to teach the majority of todays teens to REALLY drive......especially not in bad weather.
a customers daughter rear ended a van. wanna guess whaqt the first words out of her mouth to us were? "the anti-lock didn't work!"
3) moms in suv's with a bunch o kids in the back. they're usually fairly distracted, due to the misbehaving kids.
4) people with "gottagetthereittis". while this can be fatal in an airplane, in cars, it usually just creates a really big mess, when that person just can't wait those extra few seconds before turning, or pulling out in front of that tractor trailer doing 50mph(and they seem to think that 80k pounds can stop on a dime.). they also seem to feel the need to "hammer" the throttle from 1/4 mile back to beat that traffic light. there was one like that in front of my shop. the girl(cute blonde) going north, driving her mustang gt hammered it, to run the light. she was doing nearly 50(speed limit 40) when she hit the car going south(another young girl) that had accelerated to get through the light.....she was making a left turn, and was on the brakes when the gt hit her. they landed up in the field about 100 ft from the intersection. the girl was trapped in the mustang till rescue crews got here.
these are the majority of the types of accidents i see around here. while i see people talking on their cells and wandering in lane slightly, i haven't seen one cause an accident yet.
i've nearly been hit by women putting on makeup. i've nearly been hit by drunks. in fact, i followed one particularly bad one, as i called 911.
someone had said that if you can't talk, and drive at the same time, then you should give up the keys. they are right.
