Texting and Driving Crash Caught on Camera (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMt-4BHJq7KQh2NUAZxITDlER67E8JWZN4M-feH22xjGEsE1U_UyDcMUdnQ6-Zxys4gVYMQvIBxJV8xsk_AyVXks86126UghpkwS8rO0OosBykJRJyXmk7hBu2xdib1kKaGICjI4bMZrU/s1600/24442048_SA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMt-4BHJq7KQh2NUAZxITDlER67E8JWZN4M-feH22xjGEsE1U_UyDcMUdnQ6-Zxys4gVYMQvIBxJV8xsk_AyVXks86126UghpkwS8rO0OosBykJRJyXmk7hBu2xdib1kKaGICjI4bMZrU/s1600/24442048_SA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">A video of a violent car crash in Florida has been released as a warning on the dangers of texting while driving.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The dash-cam video from a trailing police car, released Monday by the Fort Myers Police Department, shows a Pontiac Grand Am swerving outside of its lane before making a turn, suddenly speeding up and cutting across the inside lane.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The car then drives onto the sidewalk, where it hits a guard rail, a bus stop sign and a tree before rolling over. The video was taken shortly after 1 a.m. Jan. 4.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The 23-year-old driver of the car crawled from the overturned car without serious injury.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">He admitted to the officer he was texting while behind the wheel and took his eyes off the road, officials said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Texting and driving is a serious epidemic," police spokesman Lt. Victor Medico <a href="http://www.fmpolice.com/News/ArtMID/1176/ArticleID/1184/FMPD-Catches-Texting-and-Driving-Crash-on-Camera.aspx" style="color: #005490; text-decoration: none;">said in a statement</a>. "We hope the in-car video in this incident is a wake-up call to those that text and drive."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The driver was cited for careless driving and texting while driving, according to police.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.464000701904297px;">http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/texting-driving-crash-caught-camera-170111877--abc-news-topstories.html</span></span></div></div>

Texting and Driving Crash Caught on Camera (BLOG)

A video of a violent car crash in Florida has been released as a warning on the dangers of texting while driving. The dash-cam video from a ...

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