Texting While Walking or Driving Dangerous to Your Health

Sure texting is a nice extra to have; it lets you keep in touch with your friends, family and work, but there are times and places where texting may be deadly. Texting while driving and texting while walking and oblivious to traffic may cause your untimely demise. Think about the consequences of what you are doing and remember that accidents can and do happen to anyone at any time.
Texting while walking is hugely distracting as you might imagine and it's not hard to imagine someone wandering out in between cars and suddenly being in the middle of the road right in front of an oncoming vehicle. Cars can't stop suddenly and the texter may just find themselves becoming a hood ornament, resulting in serious injuries or death.
Texting while driving is something you may have seen frequently, if not done yourself now and then. It's a given that when you take your eyes off the road that you are not paying attention to your driving, and head on crashes are deadly affairs. Consider the case of Joshua Tenher. Young Josh was only 21, had a great job working on oil rigs, made good money, and had a loving, close knit family and loyal friends. Josh's great pride and joy was his new cell phone that allowed him unlimited texting.
One night at midnight while on the way home for a weekend break from working on the rigs, he took time to text some friends while driving. Josh wandered into the trucker's lane and the 18-wheeler that hit him head on couldn't stop or avoid the crash. Josh died at the scene of the accident.
This kind of accident happens far more often than you would think, but often isn't "provable," and thus may go unreported. Texting while driving is just plain suicidal, and if you haven't been in an accident "yet," there is little doubt that it will happen at some point. What is so important to text that you need to do it while you are driving a 4,000 pound car? Let's face it; literally "nothing" is that much of a burning issue that it needs to be texted while in control of a moving vehicle. Remember the time when no one had cell phones or any other method of contacting people while they were driving? There were fewer accidents then.
Deaths from texting while walking are rare so far, but have the potential to escalate as well. Again, many instances may go unreported to or by police if no one saw the victim texting while walking into traffic. Have there been cases where someone died while sending a text message while they were not paying attention to where they were walking? The answer to that is an unequivocal "Yes." But it gets even worse than that when you hear the story about the 18-wheeler driver who ran a toll booth while texting and killed the toll booth operator and also caused a massive pile-up on a bridge. Or the commuter train conductor who killed ten people running a red light because he was texting.
Some states have banned talking on cell phones and driving at the same time. Others have laws that ban texting while driving as well as talking on the cell phone. Some consider using the cell phone while driving a primary enforcement issue, meaning police ticket a driver for doing this without any other traffic offense.
Cases like this are difficult, so always make it a point to consult with an experienced personal injury attorney. They will be able to assess the case and advise how to proceed to justice.