February 7, 2006
MUST HAVE BEEN AN IMPORTANT CALL, HUH?:
Mom on cell as SUV skidded (JIM WILKES, 2/.07/06, Toronto Star)
Police say Cassandra Read was talking to a friend on her cellphone when her car slid out of control on an icy road and into a canal near Bradford.The 32-year-old Keswick woman and her 4-year-old son drowned before rescuers could find her submerged SUV Saturday night
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 7, 2006 7:01 AM
get rid of that Suburban yet OJ?
This the quintessential SUV problem. People who drive them think that they are invincible. They also think that because 4WD can go on bad roads, that it can also turn and stop. That is not so.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at February 7, 2006 4:23 PMOJ: If she didn't have the SUV, she would have been at home. Of course she should have had two hands on the wheel and her eyes forward. But that illusion of saftey caused her to drop her guard.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at February 7, 2006 4:36 PMYes, home phones are less dangerous.
Posted by: oj at February 7, 2006 4:47 PMThe gun-control mentality: technology, as it brings opportunities for progress, also exerts selective pressure on the ill-adapted--resulting in what we sometimes see called, a "Darwin award."
The soft-hearted, and headed, look to ban the technology.
The misfortune described above was foreseeable and preventable on many levels not entailing progressing backwards to pre-industerial and pre-electronic squalor.
Posted by: Lou Gots at February 8, 2006 1:21 PM