{"id":46907,"date":"2023-10-19T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46907"},"modified":"2023-10-19T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:02:06","slug":"dont-text-and-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46907","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Text And Drive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-46908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bike_Hit_Car-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Text And Drive!\" width=\"976\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bike_Hit_Car-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bike_Hit_Car.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Honda crotch rocket rider was traveling at approximately 85 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The VW driver was talking on a cell phone when she pulled out from a side street, apparently not seeing the motorcycle. The rider&#8217;s reaction time was not sufficient enough to avoid this accident.<\/p>\n<p>The car had two passengers and the bike rider was found INSIDE the car with them.<\/p>\n<p>The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the force of impact and landed 20 feet from where the collision took place.<\/p>\n<p>All three involved (two in the car and the bike rider) were killed instantly. This graphic demonstration was placed at the Motorcycle Fair by the Police and Road Safety Department.<\/p>\n<p>Pass this on to car drivers or soon to be new drivers, or new motorcycle owners and especially everyone you know who has a MOBILE phone!!!<\/p>\n<p>A picture is worth a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p>Save a life. Stop talking on mobile phones and Texting while trying to drive.<\/p>\n<p>The life you save may be your own&#8230;.. Or mine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Keep passing this on so everyone will see what can happen by using a mobile PHONE while driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honda crotch rocket rider was traveling at approximately 85 mph. The VW driver was talking on a cell phone when she pulled out from a side street, apparently not seeing the motorcycle. The rider&#8217;s reaction time was not sufficient enough to avoid this accident. The car had two passengers and the bike rider was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46907\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t Text And Drive!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46909,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46907\/revisions\/46909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}