Tuesday, April 29, 2014

 

The Worst Possible Facebook Status


At 8:33 A.M. yesterday-(4-27-14), a 32-year-old woman driving to work in High Point, North Carolina, took out her phone and posted to Facebook:

"The Happy Song makes me so HAPPY."

At 8:34 A.M., police were notified of the crash.

In the moment she posted the message, the woman crossed over the median of Interstate 85 and collided head-on with an oncoming recycling truck. She is dead.

Seventy-one percent of young Americans say they have written a message while driving.

In 2012, an estimated 3,328 Americans died in crashes related to distracted driving.

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