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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTragic Irony: Teen Dies While Texting The Dangers of Texting and Driving
Taylor Sauer, a college student driving home on a lonely road, was texting with a friend via Facebook when her car crashed into a tanker truck at 80 miles per hour, killing her instantly. The tragic irony of the situation was revealed in her phone records shortly after: At the time of the accident, she had been texting about the dangers of texting and driving.
Her last message, sent moments before the crash on Jan. 14, said, "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."
According to the phone records, Sauer, 18, was posting on Facebook about every 90 seconds.
http://autos.aol.com/article/teen-dies-while-texting-the-dangers-of-texting/?ncid=txtlnkusauto00000020
Her last message, sent moments before the crash on Jan. 14, said, "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."
According to the phone records, Sauer, 18, was posting on Facebook about every 90 seconds.
http://autos.aol.com/article/teen-dies-while-texting-the-dangers-of-texting/?ncid=txtlnkusauto00000020
Unbelievable.
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Tragic Irony: Teen Dies While Texting The Dangers of Texting and Driving (Original Post)
apples and oranges
Jun 2012
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virgogal
(10,178 posts)1. Words fail me and I hope her family copes. This is rough.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)2. Please ...
This keeps happening again and again...
STOP!
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)3. Punditry kills
ManyShadesOf
(639 posts)4. some moran almost walked into me on the sidewalk
as if he didn't have to look where he's going.
What's the polite way to say DON'T RUN INTO ME?
Put a "please" in front?
Narcissistic, brain addled idiots.
Driving 80 and not aware of the tanker? Yikes
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)5. Ironical? Perhaps.
Darwin Award? Slam dunk.
bayareamike
(602 posts)6. Have some class, come on.
Nothing classier than making snarky comments about tragic deaths.
You're probably not a parent, huh?
WriteWrong
(85 posts)7. Not irony. Not tragedy. Melodrama.
It's an object lesson in walking your talk.
Every ninety seconds. 80mph. Darwin award. No doubt about it. Too bad for the parents, but they had 18 years to fix it and didn't.
pansypoo53219
(20,997 posts)8. darwin is back.