Text Messaging while driving- Fatal Crash

A California women has been sentenced to 6 yrs in prison for texting while causing a fatal crash.
“A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.

The women was sentenced Friday by a judge in Redding, Calif.

Investigators said Deborah Matis-Engle was speeding and text messaging when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007.

Shasta County prosecutor Stephanie Bridgett said the 49-year-old woman had paid several bills by cell phone in the moments before the crash.

She was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck a vehicle that burst into flames, killing 46-year-old Petra Winn…” Calif women gets 6 years for fatal auto accident while texting

As more people are texting while driving, we are concerned that may cause more car accidents. If you are driving avoid texting on your cell phone.

Safe Driving Around 18 Wheelers

Safe Driving Around 18 Wheelers. Sharing the road with a semi truck requires Safety Steps

1. be awre of blind spots
2. leave extra space between vehicles
3. Don’t pass during a right turn
   

   “Exercising some degree of caution while on the road — using turn signals, slowing down in nasty weather, yielding the right of way, etc. — tends to come naturally to most drivers. What may not come as naturally is remembering that safety rules aren’t one size fits all. Different rules apply to different vehicle types.

   For instance, it’s important to remember that the mechanics of an 18-wheeler are quite different than the mechanics of a sedan. With this in mind, here are a few things you can do to drive safely as you share the road with 18-wheelers and other large trucks……” Driving around 18 wheelers
   

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