well, like mullet said in his post, cellphones and driving are realy a problem. My friend, my dad and i went and made a camping/squirrel hunting/scouting trip this weekend on some public land. sunday morning we killed a few squirrels and were driving from one part of the WMA to the other, where our camp was. well there was a string of bicyclists doing one of those realy long rides, so the guy in front of us stopped waitin on a gap between bikes to get in his driveway. my friend stopped and waited on him to turn. i was sitting in the back of the truck against the cab.
watching the big dodge coming up behind us (we were in a ford ranger), i was thinkin "man that truck is goin fast, must be like me and never realy give himself enough time to stop."
then i was like "well, that truck is getting pretty close, better start slowing down soon...like now....oh crap"
then about twenty yards from us the driver looked up and locked up her breaks so she was only doing like 25 when she hit us.
The driver was a girl my age (18ish) and she had been lookin down at her cell phone. a baby was in the back seat of the truck in a car seat, bikes were passing 8 foot away in the other lane, not to mentinon i was riding in the truck bed. my dad had turned his head to look behind us when he heard the tires squeel so his neck got jacked up, my buddy who was drivin is just a little sore, im not even sore. had time to get ready for it. girl was fine and baby never woke up.
but man, watching a dodge coming at you at like 55 mph knowin it aint gunna stop in time is one hell of a wake up call.
