Letter: Is that text life or death?
December 21, 2009 by Staff
Filed under Letters to the Editor
From: Denise Ernst
Lester Prairie
Is that text you send while you are driving more important than the life of someone else?
Do those who text or talk on the cell phone (or eat or read, etc.) think that they – or what they are doing – is more important than another human life?
In one instance, a woman was reaching for her phone charger, hit a motorcyclist and killed him. Was a charge on her phone so important to her that she didn’t care about taking a life for it? Was his life only worth a fully-charged phone?
In another instance, the accident in which a teenage driver hit a car head on and killed all three passengers in the car is being investigated for texting while driving.
If this young man was texting, what do you think the message he was sending or reading was? Was it more important than those three lives?
If he was texting, the second it took him to take his eyes off the road brought tragedy and agony to many, many lives. Forever.
Is any message worth that?
