Comments on: Driver Slams Into Loaded Horse Trailer

By: Tina and Ben

Tina and Ben — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:46:48 +0000

EATING while driving. Eating and/or drinking in the car can be responsible for auto accidents . Wait till you get home to eat. A new study shows a staggering 80% of all car accidents and 65% of near misses are caused by distracted drivers more focused on their eating and drinking than the road. Actually sneezing while driving also. Most people close their eyes when they sneeze. Can you imagine a person driving with repetitive sneezing. Sneezing has been blamed for two million car crashes. A study has revealed that a third of adults say driving is the worst time to sneeze. Research also found that ten per cent try to suppress sneezing by covering their mouth when they sneeze. Thus removing their hands from the wheel of a vehicle.

Jamie’s husband should wait to eat after getting home or eat before he drives away from work. Sunflower seeds are too finicky to deal with anyway. It’s like a game of chase to grab a few and pop into your mouth. Just saying !

By: nod

nod — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:40:34 +0000

There are many ways to be distracted while driving. Texting is only one of them. There are too many single car accidents but usually you can’t say that or you are being judgemental. All of us have had an accident or near accident due to distracted driving. If you say different you are either a lair or you don’t drive.

By: C

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:38:54 +0000

Yes getting sunflower seeds is an distraction. Point proved and if he spits them out as he is driving…gross..littering on top of that.
Look that MEME up
I for one have had enough of people making excuses and not taking responsibility for their actions..not in this case alone but as a nation.
It has become an epidemic.
People do not realize they are doing it and others are rising up calling them out on it.
The cow was black, it was dark, he stepped out in front of me, I only had a couple, it’s not fair..it’s because of the color of my skin..blah blah.

By: K in Cantonment

K in Cantonment — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:42:15 +0000

I’m sure your husband is a wonderful person, but like they say when you look down to text you can drive the length of a football field, so I guess the same goes for reaching and looking down for your sunflower seeds.

By: Lisa McCann

Lisa McCann — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:00:40 +0000

Jamie S, I don’t mean to judge him, we all make mistakes but bending down to get the bag of sunflower seeds bag was a distraction, he had to have seen the bus prior, if not, he knows that buses are running @ that time, thanks for being concerned that kid is safe too. You know children are more important than any horse trailer, truck or horse, he could have hit that child or bus, would you still be making an excuse for him then? Whoever that child was, that the bus had stopped for is more important than that bag. Before you start telling people their comments are ridiculous & makes you sick, you need to think of the child.

By: Jamie S

Jamie S — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:45:13 +0000

I’m reading so many of these ridiculous comments and it makes me sick.
My wonderful husband, a devoted father, a veteran and a hard worker was traveling home from work when he hit the trailer. He could not see the bus in front of the trailer and he was not being careless at all. He looked down for a moment and didn’t know the trailer had stopped, it’s not easy to see the tail lights on those trailers.
He often eats sunflower seeds on the way home from work to keep him alert and he reached down to grab his bag and then that’s when the incident happened. The last driving the the trailer barely experienced any damage and was yelling at my husband as he was climbing out of his car because the door wouldn’t open. He’s lucky to be alive.
Maybe all of the busy bodies on here commenting can reserve their assumptions until they know the entire story. Thanks for the lack of concern for my husband, but he is doing well.

By: Howie

Howie — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:01:43 +0000

Hey you, driving while texting, driving while talking, sleeping or whatever you shouldn’t be doing. Hopefully you won’t be back on the roads for awhile. You could
have caused some serious injuries including the truck/trailer traveling forward and hitting the bus and children. Then it wasn’t so lucky for the family and their trailer on Blue Angel Pkwy yesterday. Young punk causing the crash in this one.

All the comments here are great !

By: C.

C. — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:22:58 +0000

I find it very rude that some one would slowdown, and apply brakes or stop when some one else may be needing to text or check their cell phone behind them.

By: sue

sue — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:48:16 +0000

OK folks, as a avid reader of NE, we all know how many car/truck crashes we see documented in this newspaper DAILY. And a majority are SINGLE car collisions. Just think how many happen that don’t make the news as they happen in other areas of the county, city or state. Hopefully some state agency is keeping up with WHY there are so many. All we ever get is “they are under investigation” by FHP, etc. And we are never provided with the cause or results once the investigation is complete. My primary guess is “DISTRACTED” driving by reading or writing a text – however, I am aware some are alcohol related (DUI or DWI). My suggestion to the authorities or legislative law makers is a new charge on the books titled: DWD – DRIVING WHILE DISTRACTED – and should carry the same punishment as a DUI/DWI. Maybe there is already a charge such as this that I am not aware of – and not just “Careless Driving”. These distracted driving crashes should be considered way more serious than “Careless Driving”.
Added note: Thank you William and Kristi for doing a great job documenting these crashes! And I used the word “crashes” instead of “accidents” because intentional texting is no accident.

By: anne 1of2

anne 1of2 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:21:50 +0000

Check the cell phone for recent use, Automatic $500.00 ticket, problem solved.