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    08-06-2012 12:33 PM #1
    Lucky kid!

    http://www.katu.com/news/local/Troop...165129626.html

    ABERDEEN, Wash. -- A teen suspected of texting and talking on a cell phone while driving escaped with only minor injuries when he crashed, causing a fence post to spear his windshield.

    Washington State Patrol Trooper Russ Winger said the teen was eastbound on Highway 12 near Aberdeen Lake Road on Saturday when other drivers reported seeing him texting and talking on the phone while driving erratically.

    The 18-year-old driver made a U-turn a short time later and then crashed off the side of the highway and into a fence.

    A piece of the fence smashed through pickup truck's windshield and "nearly took his head off," Winger said of the driver.
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    08-06-2012 12:35 PM #2
    Darwin was a little late to that party. Maybe next time.
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    08-06-2012 12:39 PM #3
    lol, accident, txt u l8tr
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    if i got my ass kicked every time I went to a particular bar, i'd own it, and ruin anything in my path.

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    08-06-2012 12:39 PM #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Aonarch View Post
    Darwin was a little late to that party. Maybe next time.
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    08-06-2012 12:40 PM #5
    Looks like the steering wheel got bent from the wood, but then turned since the damage happened
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    08-06-2012 12:42 PM #6
    Quote Originally Posted by cryption View Post
    Looks like the steering wheel got bent from the wood, but then turned since the damage happened
    Wonder if that steering wheel deflected the beam just enough...
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    08-06-2012 12:49 PM #7
    The teen probably texted to his friends that he was ok after tweeting about the accident.
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    08-06-2012 12:50 PM #8
    Lol fents, c u l8r
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    08-06-2012 12:52 PM #9
    Well, at least he was okay, otherwise the government would pass legislation to ban cell phone use while driving. Oh wait, is that illegal already?

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    08-06-2012 12:52 PM #10
    i only text when i'm on my motorcycle.

    lucky kid.
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    08-06-2012 12:55 PM #11
    So there weren't any crubs or stars around to hit?
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    08-06-2012 12:55 PM #12
    No joke, I can spot texting drivers from a mile away because they look like they're drunk.

    And it's INSANE how many teens I see texting and driving, especially that school is out for the summer.

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    08-06-2012 12:58 PM #13
    Quote Originally Posted by mike02467 View Post
    Well, at least he was okay, otherwise the government would pass legislation to ban cell phone use while driving. Oh wait, is that illegal already?
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    Quote Originally Posted by roadtripper View Post
    if i got my ass kicked every time I went to a particular bar, i'd own it, and ruin anything in my path.

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    08-06-2012 01:14 PM #14
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    08-06-2012 01:18 PM #15
    Quote Originally Posted by Time for a GTI View Post
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    No, just enforce the existing laws and instead of some wimpy fine or points on his license give the kid 20 lashes of a cane so he will never forget how stupid he was and how he put all other road users at risk of serious injury or death.

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    08-06-2012 01:45 PM #16
    Quote Originally Posted by freedomgli View Post
    No, just enforce the existing laws and instead of some wimpy fine or points on his license .
    So MORE traffic cops on the roads?
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    08-06-2012 01:49 PM #17
    Quote Originally Posted by ATL_Av8r View Post
    So MORE traffic cops on the roads?
    So MORE taxes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by roadtripper View Post
    if i got my ass kicked every time I went to a particular bar, i'd own it, and ruin anything in my path.

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    08-06-2012 02:01 PM #18
    Quote Originally Posted by phryxis View Post

    And it's INSANE how many teens I see texting and driving, especially that school is out for the summer.
    Totally true.
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    08-06-2012 02:04 PM #19
    Anyone on the board on the fence about what should happen to him, post accident?
    It's more like it than it was before.

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    08-06-2012 02:40 PM #20
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  21. 08-06-2012 02:46 PM #21
    Quote Originally Posted by ATL_Av8r View Post
    So MORE traffic cops on the roads?
    And the inverse would be to make new laws which would be enforced how?

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    08-06-2012 02:56 PM #22
    Quote Originally Posted by surefooted View Post
    And the inverse would be to make new laws which would be enforced how?
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    08-06-2012 03:05 PM #23
    I hope he at least **** his pants.

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    08-06-2012 03:24 PM #24

    "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident,"

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    A driver who managed to survive a scary fall into a ravine knows he only has himself to blame for what happened — he even texted as much before the accident.

    "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident," Texas college student Chance Bothe says he texted a friend just before distractedly driving his truck off a cliff six months ago.

    He broke multiple bones, his face, his skull, and suffered traumatic brain injuries.

    "They just need to understand, don't do it. Don't do it. It's not worth losing your life," he told KHOU. "I went to my grandmother's funeral not long ago, and I kept thinking, it kept jumping into my head, I'm surprised that's not me up in that casket. I came very close to that, to being gone forever."
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