“It wasn’t my fault the car in front of me hit me. I glanced at my text message for only a second when our bumpers collided.”
“How could the car in front of you hit you?”
“The idiot stopped to let a deer cross the street — and dented my front bumper with his rear bumper. Yet the cops wrote me up for texting while driving!”
“It’s because of people like you that April has become National Distracted Driving Awareness Month! Safety advocates are urging drivers like you to avoid texting or watching streaming video on their phones, while behind the wheel of their cars!”
“A whole month to make people aware of the risks of distracted driving?”
“That’s right. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says 3,522 people were killed in traffic crashes involving a distracted driver in 2021, and an estimated 362,415 people were injured.”
“Look, I’m in sales and on the road a lot. I’ve gotten pretty good at talking, eating, texting and driving. It wasn’t my fault some idiot front-ended me.”
“That’s simply not true. According to The New York Times, a Michigan professor found that when someone tries to multitask, important neural regions in the brain must switch back and forth. This opens up opportunities for serious mistakes behind the wheel.”
“But it’s not my fault my wife wants immediate answers when she texts me!”
“Look, our roadways have changed significantly over the years. For starters, many of our cars are so comfortable and quiet, people forget they’re operating a two-ton hunk of steel. They’re able to zone out to music or yap on the phone, oblivious to the millions of things that could go wrong.”
“But I invested a lot of dough in my sound system. It would be a waste not to blast the speakers!”
Copyright 2024 Tom Purcell, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.