Following comment by a reader in NYT on Texting and Driving ( or other distractions while driving) is worth reading.f.sheikh

“I was right behind a car that flipped over and bounced around on the highway. I had to pull over with two to three other people and approach the upside-down, smashed car.

I never felt such dread in my life, and then we all saw a baby car seat. It took guts to peek inside that car — not sure I would have been brave enough to do it in the first place. Luckily there was no baby, and the driver was alive, and bloody but largely unharmed.

She had just grabbed her phone for a sec to text her mom that she would be there soon. I got back in my car and cried my eyes out.

Please, people, you’re driving several tons of metal at high speed. Don’t text and drive.”