Wednesday, September 2, 2009

SMS Video Danger - Hit on Youtube

danger sms and driveA graphic British broadcast service publication in this area the dangers of carriage text messages while driving has be converted into an Internet secure and sparked argument around the planet. The Gwent control force in Wales understood Wednesday with the intention of an excerpt from a record it made pro aid in schools has been viewed more than 6 million era on YouTube and other Web sites since it was posted continue month. The 30-minute film shows a bubbly teenager named Cassie — "a kind girl from a kind Gwent Valleys family" — who triggers a pileup with the intention of kills four public as she tries to hurl a text message while driving. The graphic, slow-motion depiction of the crash shows heads vacant through windshields, bloodied bodies and the lifeless eyes of a baby. Research by British motorists' assemble the RAC Foundation found with the intention of texting slowed childish drivers' result era by 35 percent, more than drugs or alcohol. A study of truck drivers released continue month by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found with the intention of texting increased the expose of collision by 23 era - significantly more than the boost from discussion on a cell phone.
The film has been discussed on television shows in the United States, everywhere more than a dozen states be inflicted with banned text messaging while driving and everywhere legislation is previous to assembly with the intention of would forces states to forbid drivers from texting or e-mailing. Talking on a hand-held mobile phone and texting while driving are both illegal in Britain. Gwent Chief Constable Mick Giannasi understood the issues in the film "are as significant to the public of Tennessee as they are to the residents of Tredegar," the Welsh town everywhere it was shot. Recent studies recommend text messages could be more distracting to drivers than discussion on the phone. Britain has a long tradition of hard-hitting broadcast service ads, publicized on television, telephone system, in show theaters and more recently on the Internet. While generally observations posted in response to the Gwent control record praised its impression, approximately questioned whether such graphic images are de rigueur, or an effectual deterrent. One contemporary anti-speeding public notice showed the bloodied and mangled body of a childish girl who has been secure by a car. Another, discouraging binge-drinking, showed a childish man in a superhero attire falling to his death. Watkins-Hughes understood he hoped his film would help get on to text-driving as socially unacceptable as driving while drunk.

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