Texting and Driving

All these stats are skewed. If he had sent 30 messages while sitting on and entrance ramp, threw the phone on the floor and never touched it again prior to the crash the media/cops would still mention the 30 messages. Not saying distracted driving NEVER causes crashes but they love to mention phones or alcohol whenever they can. Motorcycle helmets are another big one the media/police love. There were 3 motorcycle crashes in one day locally here this summer. In 2 of the 3 the rider died, one was wearing a helmet and one wasn't. In the case of the guy without a helmet they made sure to point out "was not wearing a helmet" but in the case of the guy with the helmet it was never mentioned. The 3rd crash the guy was just injured and again they made sure to point out he wasn't wearing a helmet. I would just love for the news to mention "the guy died even though he was wearing a helmet"

If you have 4 say 4 alcoholic drinks and stop at a red light and someone stone cold sober hits you, that's labeled as an "alcohol related" accident. Even though it had NOTHING to do with the crash. Cell phones are just the latest scapegoat in the cross hairs of the nervous nanny's. I don't condone drunk driving, all I want is the truth. Did the texting actually cause the crash, did the drunk guy hit someone, did the guy in the totally destroyed burnt up car die because he didn't have his seatbelt on, or would it have even mattered? If you hit a tree on a motorcycle at 60 and your stopped by your face I'm pretty sure the helmet wouldn't have mattered. Stop skewing the numbers to fit your agenda.

 

Statistics don't lie. Helmets have saved more lives than not. What you fail to realize is that there is a thing called "mechanism of injury." On a bike you're not protected by a thin metal/fiberglass cage, so 9 times out of 10, you take the direct blow of the accident. Not to mention the fact that there is no seatbelt to keep you inside of your vehicle as with a car so you often times go airborne. You don't have the same protection that a car provides, so even while wearing a helmet, a lot of times you're toast.

However, in the cases of the less severe accidents, the helmet often times saves your life and prevents serious debilitation.

 

You totally missed the point.
1.die or injured without a helmet = big deal to cops/media
2.die or injured with a helmet = no mention because it doesn't fit agenda

Cell phones are the same way

 

There is a Bias in the media towards the Nanny state...most of the talking heads are socialists anyways they want the Government to control everything...Including them sometimes...but then they whine when Big Brother denies them access...well except for the current administration...they just keep praising him...

I think the best saying that sums up socialism is "Socialism is for the People...not the Socialist"

 

I see your point, and do agree with you to an extent. I think what the police try to convey is, maybe if that person had a helmet on, they'd still be here today...due to the Mechanism of Injury.

As far as the journalists go, I don't have use for many of them. They skew and sway things to scare other people and boost ratings and I in no way condone that.

 

I've often wondered...
Why should we listen to a journalist when they spent 4 or 5 years to get a degree that pays just better than minimum wage?
Most truck drivers make more money than journalists.

 

Because sooner or later...the hot weather girl is going to come on!

 

the accident that brought all this on was caused by a pickup driver not a semi driver that wasnt paying attention to the slowed or stopped traffic he was coming up on. i know that as long as the semi was involved it will somehow get spun into the trucks fault by the media. the bus than hit the pickup or truck whichever it was and another bus was also involved in that accident if im remembering correctly. than to top it all off is another bus was sent to the hospital to pick the kids up and was in an accident caused by faulty brakes or something.

so who should also be getting looked at because of this? i think the safety of however many kids are on that bus means alot also.

 

Case in point... Mrs. Domenica Davis

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Yea the way I understood it it was the bus drivers fault (too fast, too close) and they (news and Ray Lahood) are making it out as a truck and cell phone problem. The Commercial driver was the only innocent one in the whole wreck. It was the pickup driver and two school bus drivers that caused it. But because of this example commercial drivers need all cell phones outlawed.