Woman Distracted by Texting Drives Her Car Into a Lake

[Uncle Joe]

132. No it will cost car buyers $120 per car, and cars don't need to be retrofitted

just the new models, over time all cars and trucks will have it.

I will state again categorically I don't approve of drinking and driving.

Having said that being under the influence is a mitigating factor but it's not necessarily the only one, the person under the influence may not even be at fault, there are internal circumstances, blood/alcohol level, was the accident actually another driver's; fault, did they have a heart attack, were they texting, speeding, reckless driving, inattentive or drinking themselves and caused the accident?

It could be a natural or man made disaster that sends someone in to the water, it's probable that at least one of those drivers of the 100+ vehicles which fell to the Mississippi River had some alcohol or drug influence that doesn't make the accident his or her fault.

"You may look at the numbers as a minuscule amount, just a %, but if it was you or your family drowning or drowned because you or they couldn't exit the vehicle fast enough you might feel differently." - I would prefer that they never ended up in the water in the first place.

I doubt that you will find more than one or two if that many of those 300+ drowned people that "preferred to be there."

So you dodged that question, how would you feel?

I will state again in case you missed it the last time, I'm all for more driver's education, safety and awareness to reduce other fatalities, and if you have answers to reducing those causalities I'm open to any reasonable consideration.

Having said that just because this isn't the solution to most or every accident, doesn't it mean it's not a answer to some.

However it's not just bridge collapses either, it's flash floods as well, which are happening in condensed high populated areas with more frequency.

You may not even be near a lake or river although many people are, it could be a creek or stream which turns into a river.