A fantastic story came up this weekend that doctors are warning that texting can be hazardous to our health. It would appear that people are beginning to see that writing and viewing text messages in certain situations can lead to accidents.
Doctors are calling this ‘oblivious texting’ and have warned that driving, cooking and bike riding could cause harm to a person stupid enough to take their eyes off the path/road/food that they should be concentrating on.
I have to say I have witnessed for myself people driving, on bikes and even rollerblading whilst writing a text message…surely they realise how dangerous this is, without needing an official warning?
Apparently not though, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
A San Francisco woman was killed by a pickup truck earlier this year when she stepped off a curb while texting, and a Bakersfield man was killed last year by a car while crossing the street and texting, a 15-year-old girl fell off her horse while texting, suffering head and back injuries, and a 13-year-old girl suffered belly, leg and arm burns after texting her boyfriend while cooking noodles.
Doctors are calling this ‘oblivious texting’ and have warned that driving, cooking and bike riding could cause harm to a person stupid enough to take their eyes off the path/road/food that they should be concentrating on.
I have to say I have witnessed for myself people driving, on bikes and even rollerblading whilst writing a text message…surely they realise how dangerous this is, without needing an official warning?
Apparently not though, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
A San Francisco woman was killed by a pickup truck earlier this year when she stepped off a curb while texting, and a Bakersfield man was killed last year by a car while crossing the street and texting, a 15-year-old girl fell off her horse while texting, suffering head and back injuries, and a 13-year-old girl suffered belly, leg and arm burns after texting her boyfriend while cooking noodles.
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