20 year old Abby E. Sletten of North
Dakota was charged with negligent homicide after rear ending a
vehicle while going 85mph (that's 136km for the rest of the world).
Now, of course I don't write about regular ass car wrecks because
those happen all the time. I'm writing about this one because this
girl was on her Facebook and texting while driving and I am so sick
of people doing this shit all the time. The reason she is being
charged with homicide is because the SUV that she hit had a family
inside and she killed a 89 year old great-grandmother named Phyllis
Gordon of Minnesota. Police said after searching Sletten's phone they
“determined that [she] was viewing pictures on her Facebook
application at the time of the crash” and “Sletten had also sent
and received several text messages since she departed from Fargo.”
The patrol made the determination that the car was going between 84
and 86mph “suggested the possibility that Sletten may have not seen
the vehicle in front of her or that she was possibly distracted while
driving.”
Gordon, the great-grandmother was a
passenger in a car that also had her granddaughter, 34 year old
Jennifer L. Myers driving, and Myers' daughter. They survived the
accident with injuries. I must also note that the SUV they were in
was making a slow U-turn when Sletten hit them. CPR was tried on
Gordon but was unsuccessful. Sletten has no memory of the accident.
Gordon leaves behind her husband who she farmed with, three children,
eight grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. Is there gonna come
a point where people get hard time for texting while driving? I know
most people do it and they get to home, work, or shopping just fine
doing it multiple times. But all it takes is that one time to ruin
someone elses family and life because you were being irresponsible.
Fuck tickets. Licenses need to be taken away forever. I'm about to
head out and I guarantee that I will see a minimum of twenty people
doing this. It's just not worth it, people.
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