Texting - Is it worth it? READ THIS: On June 6, 2012, a Massachusetts teenager was sentenced to two and a half years of jail time for the February 2011 head-on crash that took the life of a 55-year-old father of three and seriously injured his girlfriend. The teenager’s car crossed the road’s center line and crashed head-on into the other vehicle. Prosecutors presented evidence that the then-17-year-old high school student sent 193 text messages the day of the crash, including some just a minute or so before impact and dozens more after it. A jury convicted him of motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation while texting. He was among the first people convicted under a Massachusetts law that took effect in September 2010 that created the criminal charge of texting while driving negligently and causing injury.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:00:08 +0000
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