In this episode of Roy on Rescue, Roy Shaw had received an article on his desk from AutoWeek.com.  It was an article that talked about the growing danger of drivers who are using not only there cell phones to talk, but to text message while driving.  After Roy interviewed a full time professional dispatcher from  a leading ambulance provider, and heard the same message, he decided to write this article and include this most disturbing yet realistic video.

Viewer discretion is advised! Graphic reproductions of actual car crash injuries are included in this video.  The desire of showing this video is not to create anxiety for anxiety sake, but to create a disturbing awareness that will change behaviors while driving vehicles.  We all have loved ones that drive everyday.  Even if we as drivers don’t use the phone while driving, that doesn’t stop the driver in front of you, beside you or in back of you!

Let’s create a new and safer environment and prevent needless accidents…Now.

If after you view this video you decide to show it to your teenage drivers, please educate them to the graphic nature and then talk about the public service announcement after you view it together.

Please spread the word.  Everyone’s life may depend on it.

Roy Shaw would like to specially thank the United Kingdom for producing such a realistic and educational Public Service Announcement in this fight against accidents and cell phone misuse.

Texting Kills: Cell Phone Use Impairs Drivers More than Alcohol
Jul 27, 2009 … Texting Kills: Cell Phone Use Impairs Drivers More than Alcohol, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2009.07.27.
lowendmac.com/misc/09mr/texting-kills.html

Driven to Distraction – Britain Sets Tough New Laws for Texting …
Nov 2, 2009 … When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison …. DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION; When Driver Starts Texting, Back Seat Delivers a Message …
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/technology/02texting.html -

Woman killed by teenage driver who was sending text messages at …
Jul 21, 2007 … A young bank worker who caused a fatal accident by sending a text message on her mobile phone while driving at 70mph on a rainy night was …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2112869.ece

FDI Voice | Driving While Texting Kills – What will it Take to Get …
Dec 29, 2009 … FDI Voice | Driving While Texting Kills – What will it Take to Get … found that truck drivers who were texting were 23 times more at risk …

www.prlog.org/10468710-fdi-voice-driving-while-texting-kills-what-will-it- take-to-get-this-message-out-fdivoice.html

Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest: Texting kills
Jan 17, 2010 … Texting kills. A girl of ten was killed by a passenger airbag after her mother … Driver who killed cyclist: “it was just one of tho. …
crapwalthamforest.blogspot.com/2010/01/texting-kills.html