British Texting While Driving PSA Makes FOX News Squeamish?

Fox news recently did a piece on the dangers of text or using your cell phone while driving. They also showed a PSA (Public Service Announcement) created in Wales that is currently running in Brittan. The news reporters start off the segment by warning viewers.

British Texting While Driving PSA Makes FOX News Squeamish?

Steve Doocy a FOX co-anchors starts with,

“if your squeamish or have little kids in the room, just take them outta the room for a moment…”

Brian Kilmeade co-host interjects

“If you want, a lot of people writing us are saying “I want my kids to see this”.”

Gretchen Carlson another co-anchor for FOX cuts him off saying,

“I dont know if you want kids under 15 seeing this…”

Gretchen continues to say,

“….now watch, they are going to crash head on, your going to see the graphic ramifications of a head on collision, I am not going to watch because I do not want to see that. But I can guarantee that people that see this are going to be scared straight.”

Steve:

“It looks like something you would see in a movie.”

Steve continues:

“…research show that if your texting your reaction time is delayed by 35% … your actually more impaired mentally than if you were drunk in some cases.”

Brian:

“…if you saw seven pounds with will smith you got the same message, he was on a cell phone and his wife was killed in a collision because he was on his cell phone.”

Eric Shawn, Senior Correspondent states,

“one study found increase risk of accident by 300% if your talking on the phone”

Eric continues,

“…Univ. of Utah found if you text or even dial a number you take your eyes of road for 4.6 seconds and think about it your going 55 miles an hour, that’s the length of a football field.”

Eric again,

“…they also suggest that some studies say that using a speaker phone or hands free is just as distracting.”

Tom Rusking former NYPD detective says that,

“…eventually its going to be banned everywhere in the country, we know that this is leading to people deaths all over the country…”

Eric Shawn wraps it up by saying,

” if you gotta talk on the phone don’t do it while you drive just wait let it ring , it could actually mean your life or someone else.”

Some statistics gathered from the news cast:

From Cell Phones in a Year:
2600 Deaths
12,00 Serious Injuries
636,000 Crashes
-National Safety Council

Only 6 states outlaw using your cell phone while driving:
California
Connecticut
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Washington

Thanks FOX News for shedding a bit of light on a dark dark subject amongst the world of cell phone users. I truely hope that some will take it to heart. People die, your children die, your friends die from cell phone related accidents. Why run the risk?

Here’s a link to the orignal news cast: http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/25972763/graphic-content.htm