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Driving is a full time activity, whether
you’re on the road in Tampa, Clearwater, St Petersburg, Orlando,
Lakeland, Pasco, or Sarasota. To keep yourself and those around
you safe when you’re behind the wheel, you need to devote
all of your mental, physical, and visual energies to the task
at hand. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that driving
while texting is a lethal activity.
While other forms of distracted driving—such
as driving while eating or talking on a cell phone—are dangerous
in their own right, driving while sending and receiving text
messages is a triple threat because it takes a driver’s mind,
hands, and eyes away from the job of navigating a car. As
any central Florida auto accident lawyer will tell you, drivers
who engage in driving while texting are responsible for injuring
and even killing numerous innocent people—people and families
who deserve to be compensated for medical bills, lost wages,
and other losses.
Awareness about the dangers of texting and
driving has increased substantially due to not only car accidents,
but also texting accidents involving trains, trolleys, and
other modes of transportation. Many auto accident lawyer firms
across the country have been pleased that awareness of this
issue has inspired state or local governments to make texting
while driving illegal. Texting while driving is not illegal
according to Florida law, but numerous cities and counties
in the Sunshine State have proposed anti-texting while driving
laws to be enforced within their districts.
Further positive developments hailed by
personal injury attorneys
include new technologies that would make texting while driving
impossible. There are several proposed approaches to disabling
the ability to text while driving, including applications
that are based on global positioning system (GPS) technology,
as well as Bluetooth signals being emitted from the car to
disable texting features when the car is running.
If you or someone you care about has
suffered serious injuries because of a driver who was texting
while driving in central Florida, we invite you to contact
an auto accident lawyer from Kennedy Law Group for a free
initial consultation. Our firm of car
accident lawyers has represented thousands of clients
throughout the area, from Orlando to Tampa, Clearwater to
St Petersburg, and Lakeland to Sarasota. We have dedicated
our careers to helping the injured recover the compensation
they need to pay for medical bills, lost wages, lost ability
to work, pain, and suffering.
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