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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24a WOMAN TALKING ON HER CELL PHONE runs a stop sign and hits someone.
Why am I not surprised. I hope he sues the ***** out of her.
Stupid bitch.
Sorry if I get a little upset but the same thing happened to me. >:( - spookshowbaby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Well, I do. Can't one be both a geek and a NASCAR fan at the same time?
Figures the accident involved some asswhipe on a cell phone... not a day goes by that I'm not nearly killed by some ***** who needs to feel important by talking and driving at the same time.
Cell phones are great. They make my life easier, but not at the expense of my life or other's. - einsfahrt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18In his NASCAR voice...'Well the Rusty Wallace Dodge was running well today and Im upset that we were taken out so early. We really had a shot, but some drivers just need more experience. Im just glad that everyone came out of it ok.'
- MACdaddy6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Rusty didn't crash the SUV like the title said; The other driver did.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13i want to see u miss someone... then u can judge...
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10*wasn't responsible
(sorry. ) - argblat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell... that would be completely unacceptable...."
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9In defense of like...the 5% of women in the world who aren't idiot drivers....
I was almost ran off the road by a woman talking on a cell phone the other day. And it proved something to me. Women (okay maybe just me) have extremely terrible road rage.
We pulled up to a stop light and I rolled my window down and ripped her a new one.
My boyfriend was screaming at me to stop. But I couldnt stop reminding her about how she was a waste of oxygen and should shove that cell phone up her *****. And..telling her that I hope she rolled her gas guzzling p.o.s. SUV.....wow.
I felt liberated after all of that.
I know only about 5% of the digg population is women. But I seriously scared the crap out of myself that day. (let me also mention that that isnt the first time my own boyfriend has told me to calm down before my head explodes while driving.) - MikeSD34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Except the person next to you don't usually require one of your hands all the time, doesn't require you to shift the focus of your eyes off the road and onto it, and doesn't obstruct the movement of your neck. Well, not all the time anyway. Cell phones without handheld devices are illegal in some states for a reason.
OMGWTFROFL:
You're lucky, mine was a guy and his iPod, my poor Jeep didn't make it through the incident... Of course neither did the car behind me. His car wasn't that bad though, and neither was the car in front of me that I hit as a result... ( If you were keeping count, 1 car dominoed into three other cars, totaling two ). - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Are you kidding? It was sheer genius! He's going to get a brand-new vehicle (probably free) and maybe a little pocket change to boot!
You also have to realize these guys don't drive (generally) stockers off the showroom. They get a new vehicle and send them off to CA and have them totally customized, paint, interiors, and souped up motors. You'll catch one of them selling them on Ebay now and then for charity or whatever. - repins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Rubbin' is Racin'
sorry someone had to say it :) - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Seriously what is with women and those damn cell phones while driving. They're bad enough drivers as it is without them! (boy do I love the fact that they aren't enough chicks on digg to bury me for that comment)
- bflfab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9He probably had to make a right hand turn.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You know, I've heard both sides of the argument...
"Cell phones are a major distraction while driving"
- Okay, I can understand that. Dialing. Talking to someone who can't judge when it's not a good time to talk while driving... Makes sense.
"Cell phones are no more distracting than other things that distract drivers"
- I can see that too... People tuning in radios, messing with CDs, putting on makeup/doing their hair, reading a map, reading a BOOK (Yes, I've seen it), driving while drowsy, sure, it all makes sense there too.
...Only problem is, more and more people drive while using their cell phones, and cell phones are nearly an essential anymore. Even I got one, and I am so anti-cell-phone it's not even funny (I picked one up because I started a job with an hour commute on highways that aren't particularly oft traveled). It's a pre-paid phone, and I use it no more than once a week. Messing around with your radio is pretty common, but not something that takes 5 or 10 minutes, like a cell phone call. Changing a CD is a similar situation to tuning a radio, and also takes only a few seconds. Putting on makeup and doing your hair is something fairly well limited to women, so that only affects about half of the drivers on the road, and an even smaller percentage when you consider that some women drivers are smart enough not to do that. Not too many people read maps on back roads while driving, so this mainly a highway phenomenon, and only generally when you don't know where you're going. Reading a book is plain stupidity, and while I have seen it, is rare. Driving while drowsy affects more people than I care to think about, but I'm sure it's not as prevalent as cell phones are.
The truth of the matter is, due to their penetration into the general public, their long periods of use, and the fact that they're used to communicate every little happenstance under the sun, cell phones are definitely a major danger on the roads. In my opinion, the worst distraction of all. - Barbrady, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Another case of woman driver on the cellphone causing a wreck. pathetic
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Veamon-
Did you even read the article? He was responsible. Someone ran a stop sign while they were talking on a cell phone.
oh. and if you know you're going to get buried for something, why say it anyway?
It was a stupid joke. And making fun of someone's untimely death really isn't cool. - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Rusty's the man
- shlemielo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This only affirms my belief that the most dangerous people in the world are women driving with cell phones. Not terrorists, not rapists, but women with cell phones and SUVs.
- scoot87, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8So Rusty Wallace use to race cars at 140+ mph and gets into some crazy crashes yet the front page story of him is a small traffic accident which no one gets hurt.
- RegisteredUser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4From the article..
"You hear car companies talk about safety a lot," the former driver of the No. 2 Dodge said in a statement Tuesday, "but I can tell you that (wife) Patti and I are both really thankful for the research and development that Dodge puts into the safety of their vehicles."
Wow. What an odd time to promote a sponsor. ;-) - UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Swerving won't help you miss someone running into the side of your vehicle. In a top heavy SUV you would probably be better off getting onto the brakes and hitting what ever is in front of you anyways than risk rolling it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Title is wrong. Rusty didn't crash his SUV. He was involved in one, but saying he crashed it implies he was at fault.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone else remember when Rusty crashed at Daytona, back in *maybe* 1995? He went end over end 6 times, it was pretty damn cool, and he walked away from it.
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The only part you need to read is the comment to see the title is misleading.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And that just goes to show you the quality of training that Nascar gives their drivers....for sponsor promotion.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I did a speech in college about driving while talking on the cell phone, and all the studies I could find at the time pointed out that driving on a cell phone is very similar to being drunk at the wheel..."
So has everyone else and their mother. So annoying to keep hearing about these reports. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Police should be allowed to bitch-slap any woman driving while using a cell phone.
- Tawni, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Get off your cell phone and drive :)
- Derrelicte, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5"Q) What does Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common?
A) Both of thier last big hits was "The Wall""
Lame joke.
The Division Bell was awesome. Also, I think it hit at least triple platinum. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"No racing series goes 250... *****."
What about drag racing? They top 300 MPH (482 KPH)
Ok, if you were talking about racing with turns (even if they are all left), the Champ Car World Series (kind of like Indy cars) were so fast that the drivers were nearly blacking out during testing at Texas Motor Speedway and Gil de Ferran set a qualifying lap of 241.428 Miles per hour (388.54 Kph) back in 2000 at Fontana. Not quite 250, but pretty darn close. - netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1n0yd, yes, that was a really nasty looking crash, and he was lucky that day.
As for the topic. I did a speech in college about driving while talking on the cell phone, and all the studies I could find at the time pointed out that driving on a cell phone is very similar to being drunk at the wheel, especially when the conversation causes emotional reactions. For example a lady yelling at her husband on the cell phone for not taking out the trash = same distraction/reaction time as a drunk driver. - divatri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanx a lot for the info. What an epatage!
- dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3This will get me buried, but I never realised that techie rednecks are a majority on digg!
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1No racing series goes 250... *****.
- AICkieran, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1What? no matter who caused it, he still crashed it :-/
- VinceNoir, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0I guess that means he didn't really "feel it". (Obscure reference to Talledega Nights)
- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3NASCRAP is to racing what masturbation is to sex.
yeah, technically its racing but.... - SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1yeah digg me down rednecks, like going around in the same circle over and over again is racing. add some turns omg turns!, some elevation changes and such, then its racing. NASCAR is nothing more than kids on bumper cars with bigger cars and even bigger egos.
- themarq, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7Is he dead or seriously injured?
No?
Well move along then, nothing to see here... these are not the droids you're looking for. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4Making fun of people who bite the dust due to stupidy is a national past time, and one I will always enjoy. Go cry somewhere else.
- Araxen, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Nascrap on the front page of Digg.........ugh!
- dontbejack, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2It's a ***** cell phone. It's just as bad as having a person in the seat next to you talking.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4Just proves any moron can drive 250 MPH in a oval shape. If he were a good driver he would have swerved to miss her..
This will piss off the NASCAR freaks. - CaseyUCF, on 10/12/2007, -36/+12uhhh, who cares really?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -38/+11Haha. Guess thats why he "used" to be a NASCAR driver.
And now a joke that will get me buried...
Q) What does Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common?
A) Both of thier last big hits was "The Wall"
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