Recently Emma Harrington, Injury
Prevention Specialist, at Shepherd Center told me about a fantastic opportunity
with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). They are airing a special on Distracted
Driving and want to have me in for an interview.
Now I don’t have any recollection of the
accident or several months before. However, there are some signs that makes me
think I was distracted driving. I had recently gotten a job with the school
newspaper and had taken some interviews on a small recorder. I was rushing back
to campus to write the article before it was due. Maybe I was planning what I
wanted to write by listening to the recorder back on the car ride.
The reason, I think I was listening
to it back is because somehow the record button was pressed and the whole
accident was recorded. The sound of the crash was not heard, but all the
people’s voices who came to help me were heard.
I want to be as accurate with GPB
as I can, but I really don’t know what happened. Although, I did keep the
recorder and I still have the recording. I guess I can play it in the
background.
I was told it may take several
weeks to get it done, but I will let you all know about the finished product!
Distracted driving is really a very big problem. I have seen people turning completely around to spoon feed a child in a car seat in the back seat. It is not worth it! Molly, if you weren't the type of person to look at texts while driving, I wouldn't assume your accident was due to distracted driving. That tape recorder easily could have been switched to record by hitting something during the accident. Definitely, keep up the good work about the dangers of distracted driving though. It's badddddd.
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