Couple Advocating For Stricter Texting While Driving Laws After Vehicle Plumments From Bridge

A Texas couple is recovering at home from a miraculous escape from death earlier this month. The elderly couple suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries after their Ford F-250 was struck by an SUV, causing it to plunge from the Highway 175 bridge over the East Fork Trinity River. Crandle police said the driver of the SUV was texting and driving when she veered into oncoming traffic. She clipped the couple’s pick-up truck, forcing it to collide head-on with the guardrail. The initial impact forced the truck over the guardrail, where it fell 20 feet and landed on its roof in the embankment below. The couple believes had it not been for the mud created by rain earlier in the week that things could have been much worse. The SUV driver was issued three tickets – neglect collision, unsafe speed and going too fast for conditions, and failure to drive in a single lane. The woman is fighting all three, claiming a coyote jumped out in front of her car causing her to swerve, but police said several witnesses confirm seeing her serve in and out of her lane for several miles.

Text messaging is banned for all drivers in 33 states and the District of Columbia; Texas is not one of them. Many localities have enacted their own bans on cellphones or text messaging; Crandall is not one of them. This couple said they plan to advocate for stricter laws addressing texting and driving.

Sensible legislation is a necessary start, but just because something is difficult to enforce doesn’t mean we should ignore the issue. We all know that using a cell phone while driving is incredibly dangerous and should be illegal, yet many continue to engage in this risky behavior. Whether your state has a law banning texting or not, please, do not text and drive.

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