http://www.barbaraswilliams.com/blog/ Barbara S. Williams, P.C. Blog en-us 2012 Barbara S. Williams, P.C., All Rights Reserved, Reproduced with Permission http://www.barbaraswilliams.com/blog/ Sat, 19 May 2012 04:45:00 GMT http://www.barbaraswilliams.com/images/logoprint.gif http://www.barbaraswilliams.com/blog/ All of our clients have been injured in some drastic way. Drunk drivers are out on the highways, sometimes even in the middle of the day. Our firm doesn't want you to become our client-- we want you to be healthy, not harmed by the negligence, inattention or bad driving of another driver. Sometimes defensive driving can prevent you from being in a car crash. If you are constantly paying close attention to the other cars or automobiles on the highway, you may be able to avoid a crash. Recently I noticed that while I was driving to work, I saw at least ten cars in a row with drivers on their cell phones. As I paid attention to the drivers passing me or at one of the many four way stops in my small home town, I noticed that it was actually rare to see a driver without a cell phone being held by hand. Sometimes I could tell the driver was reading a cell phone screen ( text or email, who cares?), and once in a while I could see the driver apparently texting. One day a Subaru station wagon in front of me on a winding road went flying off to the right, hit a ditch and an underground telephone post, soared through the air for a second then corrected its direction and came back on the road. The car didn't stop but continued down the rural road. I was amazed. My first thought was that the driver must have been texting. Everyday on my way home from work I see the tracts of this recent near catastrophe. If another car had been in the on-coming lane, a horrible crash would have occurred. However, the lucky driver made it through the event presumably unharmed. I fear that cell phones are causing a lot of crashes theses days. I do not have the statistics on hand nor is this blog about what the exact numbers are, but since I represent injured persons I am concerned about the phenomenon. Laws prohibiting texting are difficult to enforce. Our culture tolerates and even encourages cell phone use while driving. I hope that tolerance of texting, dialing or distraction due to cell phone use while driving changes with time so that no crashes are a result of driver inattention.  Again, we don't want you to be our client. Watch out for that "texting" driver on the road!!
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