Health & Safety: The Dangers Of Distracted Driving Downtown Short Pump
Towing a boat trailer can be a little nerve-wracking on narrow country roads. You are trying to keep the right wheel out of the ditch and left wheel on your side of the yellow line and out of the way of oncoming traffic.
I was taking my time and was driving just under the speed limit when a car blew through the stop sign right in front of me. It happened so fast I didn’t have time to hit my brakes and the car had already crossed the intersection. The driver then slammed on brakes, realizing what they had just done.
The car was travelling about 50 miles per hour and would have totaled my pick up and boat if we had collided. I might have survived since it was a four wheel drive truck, but my body would have taken a beating. If they had struck a small car or motorcycle, chances of survival would have been slim.
I wasn’t mad as I continued driving, but simply thankful for divine intervention, my slow driving and my good luck. But what I thought of, and what you might be also wondering, was why this driver was so distracted that they failed to stop at the stop sign. What this driver was doing happens around us every day we drive and most of us are guilty of it. This driver was talking on the cell phone, and was so distracted it, they nearly caused a major accident.
