Jeep versus Ford Collision

[DT MI]

Had an unfortunate incident today. My wife, her sister and myself were going to a cancer survivors event. My sister-in-law was driving to our place and we were going to take my car to the event. Went to leave and I had a flat tire (turned out to be a nail) so my sister-in-law said to take her Jeep - so we did.

As we were waiting for traffic to clear so we could make a left turn into the event were were hit in the rear by a guy who "Only looked down at his phone for 1 second" (his exact words ).

Fortunately nobody was hurt, the other driver admitted fault to law enforcement, and was insured, and we were able to drive away. His car left the scene on a flat bed as it was undriveable. Karma?

 

[Dashmellow]

Sorry this happened to you and yours. Glad no one was hurt. Of all the times not to be in a dash cam equipped car!

We were just having a conversation about distracted drivers over in this thread. It's a crazy problem that just seems to be getting worse as time goes by even though many jurisdictions have outlawed using a hand held device while driving.

 

[DT MI]

...even though many jurisdictions have outlawed using a hand held device while driving.

Michigan is one of them (distracted driving in general) and the community where this happened specifically bans hand-held devices. I don't think the other driver mentioned to the LEO he was looking at his phone, or if he did, the LEO didn't say anything to me. Have to get a copy of the police report to see what it says.

 

[Dashmellow]

As I mentioned just yesterday in the thread I linked, we've had a law on the books forbidding the use of hand held devices since 2015 but most people seem to just ignore it.

 

[dash riposki]

Maybe about the time we have self-driving cars the various states will grow the balls to implement effective laws and methods to determine if the phone was in use?