Whenever I see one of
these, I check it out on Snopes to make sure it's genuine. This
one’s true. This photograph is of a
deadly collision that happened August 5, 2010, near Gray Summit, Missouri. The
pickup driver and a 15-year-old student both died. Thirty-eight other
people were hurt.
Accompanying
caption to photograph:
You see
that crumpled mess of gray steel and wheels under that bus and on the back of
the big truck?
That WAS a pickup truck!
The driver of that pickup truck was a 19
year old male, who had received and sent 11 text messages
in the 11 minutes prior to this crash. He rear ended the big truck
tractor at 55 MPH, causing his pickup to go up onto the back of
the big truck tractor, the school bus rear-ended both of them, running up and
over the pickup truck, and a second school bus that you can't see in the
picture, rear-ended the school bus you see here.
In all, the young man driving
the pickup WHILE TEXTING, DIED, and one student on one of the buses died.
Is
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?
