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Yet Another Reason to Not Text and Drive

Yet Another Reason to Not Text and Drive

We’ve been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25-year-old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake. Fortunately, she was able to crack her window and escape before emergency vehicles arrived, and is only being treated for mild injuries. So, unless you’re ready to fish your car out of a lake, let this be a lesson to you: don’t text and drive.

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