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A very consciousness raising topic, Duane.
Thank you for this...
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I agree with the sentiment. But let me play
devil's advocate. Sometimes being on the
phone while driving can help save a life...
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wow.. intense story.. sure made me think. you
are very right.
about the image its incredible as usual. i
truly love the whiteground
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point well made: now the question:
do handsfree sets help being less
distracted ?
are you more distracted talking on a cell
or with a passenger ?
and what about "drivebyshooting"
;-)
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I don't have a cell phone. I did, however,
have to stop for a moron coming the wrong way
over a one-way bridge, yapping on his cell
phone the whole time. It should be illegal.
Half the people on the roads can barely drive
if they give it their full attention.
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Beside this particular case, I wonder if
there are statistics about the gender of
people involved in cell phone-caused
accidents. Women have multi-tasked minds,
while men, and I can concur, are usually more
focused on one thing at a time. Cell-phone
related accidents happen when someone becomes
too focused on their conversation.
On another level, the golden light in your
picture is beautiful.
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In the UK cellphone's may only be used on
handsfree whilst driving. However research
has shown that even use of a handsfree is not
good, driving related concentration levels
dip significantly.
I have a colleague who is the most
enthuisiastic chap. His job is to generate
awareness of road safety. He is a real dynamo
at it. Each year he organises a competition
for all the schools in Nottingham City. The
kids have a great time. We have 37 road
deaths a year in Nottingham. He'll only be
happy when each year there are none. Me too
for that matter.
I love the shot. The story is too sad.
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diggin this shot! the only accident that i've
been in while at the wheel was being hit from
the side by someone on the phone... i'm more
for handsfree or not at all - people cannot
drive as it is.
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it's also illegal to use a phone while
driving here in Australia. you get something
similar to a speeding ticket if you get
caught...a fine and i'm pretty sure it goes
on your driving record. seems like common
sense to ban it if you ask me...it's an
obvious safety hazard.
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illegal here in the uk too...and rightly
so...mind you, you still see people doing it
and many other crazy things too...good shot,
great words as usual duane...
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You can get hefty fine's if they catch you
here (Belgium), it's considered endangering
other people. But you still see it a lot in
daily life, and some people don't think it to
be dangerous. But when you see how bad they
then drive when on the phone they should
learn the dangers.
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I think it is not allowed in Mexico City the
use of cell phone while driving. I don't know
about the rest of the country. I have seen in
Germany people doing it. I don't do it. I
don't have cell phone, I don't have a car...
This sort of accidents are just the cause of
the impertinence of people. If the call is so
important why not to park and take care of
the call?
Your picture is great, beautiful colors.
Great caption in this picture :)
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Eerily beautiful photograph. Great idea for
a bit of interesting debate and consciousness
raising.
Ditto what a lot of people have said.
Garnite and neuskool make a great point too!
A couple of years ago a cyclist (bicycle)
was hit and killed by a lady typing a text
message while driving here in Australia. It
had a real effect on me because it was at a
time when I bought my first mobile phone and
I attempted to read a text message I'd
received whilst driving. I realised that,
while it is a mobile phone, it is not a
'while your mobile on wheels' thing. I was
surprised at how badly I was distracted.
Either gender, it is endangering your fellow
human beings.
Sadly, people ignore the law and, yes,
we've all seen those numb nuts driving like
oblivious drunks when they have one hand at
their ear.
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The dark side of cellular glory! But nice
shot, anyway!
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wooow....
gorgeus
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In the Nehterlands it is prohibited to use
cellphone in car unless it's handsfree set.
Sad story Duane. Take care.
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using cell phones while driving is now
illegal over here, but I don't see much
change. I see several drivers a day talking
on the phone while whizzing by at 100 mph...
morons.
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damn those cell-phones!
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What a sad story it is....
In France, bills are heavy for the use of
cell-phones in car.
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It's its illegal to use hold you phone to
either talk or sms in Australia. It's such a
good idea. There have been many cases here
too.
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catchy colours leading to a sad story ...
i would welcome the bills to be introduced
for torontot.
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I'm in Australia and what I have to say has
been said by natmeister and Dj MuDGuTz (gosh
it's crazy typing that nick! ;) )
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Thanks, Duane, for initiating this important
discussion. Cell phones are not
"golden," as your ironically lovely
image suggests, but are dangerous and should
be used only in an emergency while driving.
Invariably when you see people driving
erratically they are on cell phones, and
studies have shown that the distraction
occurs whether they are hand-held or not. It
is the conversation, itself, that is the
dangerous distraction.
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yeah, i'm all for banning their use while
driving. it's that way in the uk...but not
here in toronto yet. tsk tsk.
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Studies have shown that your likelihood of
being in an accident increase 400 percent
when a cell phone is being used. Those are
about the same odds of having an accident as
when you're legally drunk.
Drivers with a cell phone in the car are 34
percent more likely to be in an accident.
Also, drivers who used their phones for more
than 50 minutes per month increase their risk
of collision five-fold.
And yes, hands-free devices are just as
risky as hand-held phones.
I am guilty of using a phone while driving,
but have since stopped the practice, and now
either pull off to the side of the road to
make a call, or let the voicemail pick up
incoming messages.
As far as "drive by shooting" is
concerned - I rarely do it any more, and when
I do it's as a passenger in a car. When I
first started shooting, I never looked at the
camera at all. I would keep it in my lap,
hold it up in a particular direction, click,
and hope I actually shot something decent.
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Speaking for myself, I know that when I talk
on a cell phone in the car, part of my brain
I use to drive is distracted too much carry
on a conversation. (This does not happen when
I am speaking to someone in the car.)
I don't talk on the phone while driving
anymore.
I drive a tiny car (Miata) and I am almost
killed on a daily basis by people whose
vehicles are so large that they can't see me,
and by people who are yakking away on their
phones.
I hate them.
If I shoot pictures from my car, like
Duane, I point the camera towards what I am
shooting and don't review what I've caught
until I've stopped the car.
"HANG UP AND DRIVE, MUTHAF*CKER!"
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I have an awful lot of pet peeves about other
drivers... lack of turn signals, running stop
signs, speeding through residential
neighborhoods.
Sometimes I believe the true nature of a
person lies in the way they drive, and that
doesn't fill me with a lot of hope.
But yeah, in recent years, if I see someone
do something really stupid, it seems 9 times out of 10 they're
talking on a cell phone.
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even if it's not illegal i would expect it
would be universally frowned upon. as some
have said it's illegal here in the uk but
even before then it was widely condemned.
legal or not i'd never do it
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Newell the Jewell [deleted] says:
thank you for sharing this. the drivers
actions seem odd. who in their right-mind
would drive around a schoolbus with flashing
lights.
cannot begin to tell you the countless
times i've noticed drivers talking on phones
and driving. ny state even has a law
regarding this practice, though no one seems
to care.
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This is why I refuse to have a cell phone.
The distraction is just too dangerous.
And if you saw the lines at the payphones
on 9/11 because the cellphones weren't
working...
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yes terrible. Here's it's against the law to
hold a mobile in your hand and drive.
btw: a fab close-up!!
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again... good works in every category duane
*******
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I don't drive and have spent years commuting
by bike and train. I have been astonished
(and nearly wiped out) by the awesome
stupidity of motorists on a number of
occasions. Ironically, my last rant at a
driver was one who overtook me then abruptly
stopped to take a mobile call, then waited
till I was overtaking to start again. I was
two foot from her window, parallel with her
face and shouting like hell. She still didn't
notice. Then she did it again.
To be honest, it isn't just phones. It's
the familiarity people feel for their cars.
Their own little private bubble hurtling
around the roads.
BTW, why is it only men pick their noses
while driving?
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There was a girl in my city last year
babysitting a young boy. The parents gave
her the 'ok' to drive their Hummer (so she'd
be safe). She ran a red light - plowed into
a Suburban and killed a child sitting in the
backseat. She was also on a cellphone. So
sad.
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Beautiful shot. Love the way you turn the
mundane into something extraordinary.
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Hang up and drive.
That person will never be able to do
anything to make up for the loss of a 5 year
old.
She should never drive again; why should we
risk lives thinking she'll change her bad
habits?
Research has shown are you more distracted
talking on a cell phone than with a
passenger;
I have no qualms about dropping a
conversation with a passenger when I'm
driving; and they can see the road as well,
and won't start asking, "Are you there?
Hello?"
I am always worried when people phone me
while driving;
wouldn't want them to get in a crash.
Police don't even enforce the speeding laws
here, unfortunately!
(I mean, not regularly enough that people
are afraid to speed; only to meet a ticket
quota or perhaps for DWB. When the average
traffic flow is 20+ mph over the posted
limits, on a road with cross streets and
traffic lights, something isn't right.
Too many people have their phones up to
their heads, entering traffic, taking turns,
changing lanes without signals. Wish there
was a law, and it was enforced.
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We have a simple rule at work (and outside of
work too).
"ENGINE ON - PHONE OFF"
That goes for hands free too.
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malaysia the country im living has imposed
ban quite long time ago.
something interesting about cell phone
while driving
cellular-news.com/car_bans/
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love the yellow wash over the phone.
caution!
I can't drive and yak on the cell - too
many distractions. The only think I do with
my cell phone while driving is recharge the
phone.
Looks like the recharger for the car does a
quicker job than the recharger at home.
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totally like the color tones on this one --
:)
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jesus.. that is some story..
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gr8 macro
accompanying this awful story
it's prohibited 2 call without a headset /
handsfree here in holland
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incredible shot duane. great colors and
framing.
a very similar accident occurred in
orlando, several days before i was visiting a
friend for a few days back in november. the
driver was also a young woman in her 20s. and
the saddest part of the story was that the
victim was a young mother and her two
children.
the government needs to take action. there
needs to be a federal law banning cell phone
usage while driving, and ensure that this is
applied and enforced from coast to coast. i
simply refuse to answer calls while driving,
and most of my friends know and understand
this. i don't see why people can't set
boundaries for themselves.
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It's illegal now in Illinois to drive while
talking on a cell phone (at least, wthout a
handsfree kit). *just* went into effect.
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love the colors
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Wow...sad story...its really good that you
are sending concious messages through your
photos...
Here in Dubai...holding a cell-phone
directly to your ears is illegal while
driving...therfore most people nowadays are
using headsets and speaker phones...which is
so much better and safer...hopefully this
will increase even more here and all around
the globe...since it can save many
lives...including ours...
By the way, great close-up shot...
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Oh boy I think there is no one who loaths
cell phone as much I do. Everytime I see
someone talking on cellphone and driving, I
cringe.
I can't even stand doofus cellphone addicts
walking on the sidewalk telling every single
detail of their mundane lives.
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Angie Dipman is a close friend of mine and
while she was involved in an accident, it was
exactly that, an accident. the media blew
this case up and therefore made Angie out to
look like a bad person. This could have
happened to anyone. that is why it is called
an accident. We are in the process of trying
to get a law passed here in Ohio to ban the
use of cell phones while driving due to this
and other accidents involving cell phones.
And just for the record, she wasnt talking on
her cell phone while driving, she had reached
over to retrieve her cell phone because it
was ringing.
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It could not have happened to anyone that
stops instead of driving past a school bus
with its lights flashing.
Nor to anyone that does not use a cell
phone until
they find a safe place to pull over.
(How many times can people get their
license suspended before
they lose driving privileges permanently?
Driving a car is not a right.)
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