Promoting Best-Practices and Supporting Crash Victims
Leigh Mingus writes: I lost my only child/best friend 4 years ago as a passenger in a car with a texting driver.
Continue reading “MEMORIAL PAGE – McKinsey Pleasants, January 19, 2016 – Distracted Driving”
The NTSB’s investigation revealed the Tesla’s “Autopilot” was activated during the last 10 seconds prior to impact. [See footnote #2.]
Three teenagers, including twin brothers, were killed in a Christmas night crash in Hyundai that was heading south on the rural Foothill Road, near Pleasanton, on the East Bay. All three of the deceased were students at Dublin High School.
Continue reading “Three Teens Killed in Christmas Night Crash in Pleasanton, CA”
6pm, 25 December, 2019 — Christmas day. Geneva, Alabama.
Three high school cheerleaders were killed and another girl was hospitalized with critical injuries following a Christmas night wreck in Geneva, south Alabama. A fifth girl in the vehicle escaped without serious injury.
Of concern to Road Safety USA were some apparently inappropriate comments by law enforcement officers.
Continue reading “Three teenage girls killed in a Christmas Day crash in Alabama”
11:12pm, June 17, 2019. 180th and Platteview Road, Papillion, Nebraska.
Continue reading “Four Teenage Girls Killed in a June 2019 NE Crash — but Alcohol is NOT the Only Issue”
Singapore might not be a country that springs readily to mind when thinking about an effective fight against distracted driving but they have an excellent way to combat cell phone use by drivers.
Continue reading “A Good Enforcement Technique from Singapore”
According to ABC News, animal cruelty is now a federal felony.We have no problem with this scenario whatsoever, except to ask that if animal cruelty warrants classification as a federal felony, why are people who drive drunk, drugged, distracted or plain dangerously, and kill someone as a result, not treated in the same ‘federal felony’ manner?
What is this if not an astonishing and frankly inexplicable imbalance of priorities?
November 16, 1993 — December 2, 2015
Joanne Higgins’ nephew and Godson, Tyler Smedley, made some horrible choices on Dec 2, 2015, that cost him his life in a crash on Steamboat Island Rd., Steamboat Island, Washington State.
Joanne writes:
The pictures here are hard for me to see, yet I feel it’s important that I share them. I want to show the dangers of cellphone use, the dangers of drinking & driving, and the dangers of speeding.
Continue reading “Memorial Page – Tyler Smedley – WA, December 2, 2015”
At 3pm on Independence Day, 2010, Paul Miller hugged and kissed his mom Eileen farewell for what neither could possibly know would be the last time.
Paul was heading out to a party and ended up spending the night with friends, then headed for home the next morning, via PA State Route 33.
Paul’s thing in life was baseball and his passion was for the Yankees.
Eileen says that she always knew he was going to play for Lackawana College when he got there, but he knew by then that he was never going to play for the Yankees because he said “I’ve really got to buckle down and I’m just going to stick to my academics right now…” Eileen knew when he said this that he had become a man.
I write this as a retired traffic patrol police officer, and believe me, at the scenes of serious-injury or fatal road crashes I have heard some stunningly pathetic excuses from drivers about why they weren’t paying attention when they hit someone else.
Continue reading “Distracted Driving…. What EXCUSE would YOU make?”
