When you drive a car, DRIVE!!

It's not about yakking on the phone.
It's not about putting your make up on.
It's not about reading your morning paper.
It's not about playing with the radio station...
It's not about eating your brekkie.

Each second you are distracted, you travel 88 feet at 60MPH. Enough to crash.

Several years ago, in Irvine California, on quiet Sunday morning, on a 4 lane road with very light traffic, a car (I think it was high end BMW) was involved in a crash. Wrapped around a tree. Driver was dead at the scene. No skid mark. No broken pieces of car on the road leading up to the crash scene. It was determined that the driver was going at very high speed and was talking on the phone. He was distracted and veered off the road and bulls-eyed into a big oak tree.

I take my driving very seriously. Maintain my situational awareness around me at all times. You should too. no ear phone/buds... I've seen distracted drivers run a stale red light. Yes on one occasion, it collided and totaled the SUV.

Oregon also has hands-free only law. Hands free should be banned too. I'm bit sensitive. My sister and my twin nephews were just a year old babies when their car was rear ended. It is amazing they survived at all. Nothing was left of their car. My sister was waiting at a red light when they got rear ended by someone going near 60MPH is what I understood.