Playing the flute while driving??!!! AAAggghhh!!!!!!!!!!


	Playing the flute while driving??!!! AAAggghhh!!!!!!!!!!

jussyRider

6-19-2007 9:26 AM

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cell phone, driving, car wreck

jussyRider says:

This article is just a study done about the increased risk of driving while using the cell phone or just simply multitasking. It's boring except for the parts clipped.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d6082a3-f257-45d2-be33-a7c49d6603dc/AC264ED9-82D3-4752-B524-4687932A1F72/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a" href="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a" style="font-size: 11px;">64.233.167.104</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><DIV><NOBR>Distracted drivers were involved in nearly eight out of 10 collisions or</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>near-crashes,</NOBR></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><DIV><NOBR>We see people on the</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>roadways talking on the</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>phone, checking their</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>stocks, checking scores,</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>fussing with their MP3</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>players, reading e-mails,</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>all while driving 40, 50,</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>60, 70 miles per hour</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>and sometimes even faster</NOBR></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><NOBR>They found that the risk of a crash increases almost threefold when a</NOBR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><NOBR>driver is dialing a cell phone.</NOBR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><DIV><NOBR>a young woman craning her neck to look out the driver's side window</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>before rear-ending a stopped car. She cups her hand over her mouth in</NOBR></DIV>
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<DIV><NOBR>collision. The air bag deploys and the driver's hair, tied back behind her</NOBR></DIV>
<DIV><NOBR>ears, flies into her face</NOBR></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><NOBR>John Simpson of Christiansburg, Va., said his "personal favorite" is once</NOBR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><NOBR>seeing a woman in traffic "with her knees up on the steering wheel,</NOBR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PI9FLAKhy-YJ:www.eng.vt.edu/pdf/upload_files/Chron.com%2520Car%2520Crashes.pdf+protonix&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a"><NOBR>sheet music in her lap and she was playing the flute."</NOBR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC264ED9-82D3-4752-B524-4687932A1F72/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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