Nosiree, not a good day for California State Senator Carole Migden... It turns out this is the senator who last year voted to impose a fine while driving and using a cell phone, crashed her SUVâ while using her cell phone!
Police received complaints from a number motorists about Migden's erratic driving just prior to the crash.
"We have drivers calling from apparently down in Berkeley all the way up to where she crashed," CHP Officer Marvin Williford said Tuesday. "Her driving was just erratic...
Two of the witnesses who called 911 said Migden grazed a the concrete barrier, several miles before her accident.
"Based on her (Migden's) statement and the damage to her car, we know that she hit something. We're trying to determine where she hit it," Williford said.
So, who will have the most fun with this? Letterman or Leno?
Full story here and here.
"Based on her (Migden's) statement and the damage to her car, we know that she hit something. We're trying to determine where she hit it," Williford said.
So, who will have the most fun with this? Letterman or Leno?
Full story here and here.
billt9 says:
08:00 AM, 05/23/07
She was demonstrating the dangers of cell phone use while driving, using herself as a guinea pig.
As we can see from her experiment, reaching for ringing cell phones while driving causes collisions!
We need to promote this brave senator, and ban cell phones from North America!
actualsize says:
08:14 AM, 05/23/07
I take the 5th.
ateixeira says:
10:03 AM, 05/23/07
LOL!
tirthankar_b says:
10:15 AM, 05/23/07
Hypocrisy is the birth right of politicians ..
SubyTrojan says:
10:25 AM, 05/23/07
Only in California (imagine the Governator saying "California")!
desmolicious says:
12:49 PM, 05/23/07
Kah-lee-for-nya!
carlisimo says:
02:52 PM, 05/23/07
Cell phone use is going to be like half the driving laws already out there. Things we wouldn't want other drivers to do around us, but when we're at the wheel the risk seems so low that we don't think twice about it. I'd specifically mention speeding as a parallel but then this thread would devolve into a discussion about that. Oops.
I'm lucky in that I've trained my family and friends to not expect me to pick up the phone when they call me. But most people feel like it's rude to refuse a call, so it takes a strong sense of danger for them to not pick up.
billt9 says:
05:43 PM, 05/23/07
"But most people feel like it's rude to refuse a call"
I see this behavior.
There is an incorrect prioritization in people's brains.
The dangers of piloting 4000 lb battering rams is lost to the people.
All dangers are censored by the government and media.
We need to show dead people in driver's ed, instead of mangled cars without any trace of personal injury.
Driver's ed needs to show what a skull fractured into 40 pieces looks like, what the swelling looks like, what a ruptured spleen looks like, what a shattered pancreas looks like.
What a dead person with no arms looks like.
What a fatal gangrene infection looks like.
Then people will be able to prioritize better.
carlisimo says:
07:05 PM, 05/24/07
But when people have taken hundreds of calls in their cars and not crashed, they're not going to think that it's a dangerous activity. Let's say for argument's sake that normal driving is 0.01% dangerous and driving on the phone is 0.1% dangerous... that's 10 times as much but it's a risk most people obviously think is worth taking, because it's still low.
estreka says:
09:36 AM, 05/26/07
How is it that a senator (someone who determines his or her own salary), doesn't have a bluetooth earpiece or an integrated phone system in her own car?