Dumb teen texts: 'Driving and facebooking is not safe!' - and then dies in crash
 

You can't make this shit up:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/466270.../#.T1XdQflBdbw


"Sauer was making a late-night, four-hour drive from the Utah State University campus in Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho. She passed the time along I-84 messaging a pal on Facebook about the Denver Broncos football team. But she stopped short, writing in her final missive, "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."

Moments later, Sauer, going more than 80 mph, slammed into a tanker truck that was slowly creeping up a hill at 15 mph. She was killed instantly; investigators saw no signs that she applied the brakes before the fatal crash. And in checking her cell phone records, they learned Sauer was posting about every 90 seconds during her drive."


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Jesus, instant death, she didt know what happened

Dumb to do, yes, but this seemed like an otherwise bright girl. Sadly, teens text and drive. Hell, too many people of all ages text and drive.

Somewhere, someone is wondering why she didnt reply.

I know a 19 year old model who told me "I have crashed my car 3 times, each time because I was texting" and yet she still does it. Cell phones are like crack pipes to these girls, they can't put em down.

Sad to say but my domain text-additcs.com is growing in value. About time I try to put up a page.

Maybe a Text Rehab center would be interested.

Darwin works in mysterious ways.

And some say porn is dangerous.

r . i . p .

She should have just had some vodka while she was driving, she would have probably done better.

it's even more irresponsible and dangerous than drunk driving, the laws surrounding it are either non-existent or the equivalent of a parking ticket..

they are only now just figuring this out what was obvious years ago.

Guess the race.

And gender.

To be fair though, I've had a good 3 or 4 low speed close calls because I was looking at girls instead of watching the road. :(

Cars are rudimentary time travel machines, true story.

I think the problem is genetic. Next time you are driving count the number of women WITHOUT a cell phone in their hands.

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I'd say the accident had absolutely nothing to do with texting.

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Spot the mobile device.

It's not funny because these "texters" are killing other people in their crashes.

Agreed.

I hope the poor tanker truck is OK.

is that too fucking expensive to call?

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Thats really pretty stupid to not realise the extreme danger of trying to text while driving. Maybe she had a bright future.. but.. not too very it's sad to say.

Really? So what would you say caused her to slam into a giant tanker truck going 80 mph without touching her brakes? Tinted windows? We all know speeding kills more people at the end of the day, but at least they tend to hit their breaks.

Not surprised she didn't see it if her eyes were not properly adjusted to the driving conditions because of looking at the bright backlit lcd mobile display.

At 80 mph you cover the length of a football field, 360 ft, in 3 seconds. When does taking your eyes off the road for texting even start to make sense?

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You don't start taking on the world, arse end of a tanker first. Not that bright!

they should ban ALL cell phone use while driving.
European Countries have been doing it for YEARS.

I see drivers doing stupid things on the Road almost every day, 90% of the time, they are talking on their phone.

Hell, yesterday i saw a fatty on the highway on her cell... with her other hand; she was holding the steering wheel AND an Ice Cream, she was all over the place :helpme

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Got my vote. :thumbsup

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ADG

exactly - it isn't just the stupid teenager that dies.

Texting trucker kills innocent motorist

Cop Drives 126mph While Texting, Kills Teen Girls

Is there an app for that?

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Wow, that's really sad to read.

Like others have said, we should start adopting more driving rules from the Europeans. I watched a documentary once on Euro drivers and the Auto Bahn and how it's pretty safe because people follow the rules of the road and aren't distracted.

Euros don't listen to music, talk on their phone and drink their Starbucks when driving. They drive. They use the LH lane to pass then move over.

If American drivers learned nothing else from the Europeans than just that alone, the number of traffic accidents over here would drop by 60% or more.

Texting is absolutely awful, but there's an underlying problem of people multitasking when driving. Texting is just taking the place of people doing makeup, shaving etc. I'm sure even GPS has led to accidents with people looking over at the maps vs. at the road.

You have to be a complete fucking moron though to text while doing 80. You're just asking for a mistake that you can't take back.

Been hit hard last year by a stupid teen texting while driving. Beside her, we were 5 cars involved... She walked away smiling, the poor one behind me (direct impact) left by ambulance with neck support... :(

I'll never forget working in a strip mall and hearing sirens, watching out the window towards the intersection at the entrance/exit to the parking lot. A van pulled out to turn left directly in front of the ambulance and the kid was killed. He was blasting music so loud he didnt know there was a siren wailing towards the intersection. Add in eating, texting, talking and who knows what else. Bad ideas in vehicles.

Eighteen years old.... I'd hit it.

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I walk my dog for about an hour every day. When I happen to look in a car going by, half the time someone is looking at their phone. It's a lot of people who are not looking at the road -- and it almost ALWAYS women. Girls can't stay off their damn phone for a second. My wife and I were in her friend's Suburban, and she spent the first minute of the ride sending text messages. I told her if she was going to do that, then pull the fuck over right now and let us out. There was a serious argument that ruined our day, but she put the phone away.

I think all of our chances of being killed by a distracted idiot has seriously gone up since cell phones came out. Car makers should have some kind of tech that inhibits text messaging in phones while the car is in motion. Sounds far fetched, but it would probably be the only thing to stop these fucking morons from killing the rest of us.

At least some of these accidents don't hurt others. Last year, Dr. Frank Ryan was texting while driving and drove off a cliff, only killing himself. The dog survived. :thumbsup

Celebrity plastic surgeon apparently tweeted minutes before deadly crash

Where's the statistic for getting road head?

She was texting about Tim Tebow, guess Jesus doesnt save.

I feel really sorry for the truck driver.

she should have followed her own advice:

"And in checking her cell phone records, they learned Sauer was posting about every 90 seconds during her drive."

Another Facebook success story.

Texting while driving is just insane

I text while driving all the time and have yet to kill anyone. Just a handful of fender benders and a couple totaled cars. No injuries though. :2 cents:

"salutatorian" ??? americans are fucked up.