TARGET ZERO- Walking and Texting

The Snohomish County DUI and Target Zero Task Force is emphasizing pedestrian safety to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries to zero by 2030.

Recently, NBC’s Today Show showed what happens when you walk and text. Look at the video and think twice next time you are enticed to walk and text.

And remember, texting and driving is now illegal in Washington State. Local police agencies will be conducting distracted driving emphasis patrols between April 2^nd and 14^th.

NBC Today Show:

https://www.today.com/video/texting-and-walking-jeff-rossen-explains-how-it-could-get-you-killed-1193325635796

Snohomish County DUI and Target Zero Task Force:

http://snocotargetzero.org/index.html

TEXTING AND DRIVING- Film Shows the Aftermath of Texting and Driving Crashes

This morning’s Morning Edition program on NPR did a piece about a film by Verner Herzog called “From One Second to the Next.” It was produced as part of a campaign sponsored by AT&T to discourage young people from texting and driving called “It Can Wait.”

The half hour film shows the personal results of crashes that are the results of texting and driving from the perspective of both the victims and those who were texting and driving.

Film has been used to discourage drinking and drive in the past. Those films often used graphic images to show the gore of car crashes in an attempt to shock people to refrain from taking the drink. This film takes a different tact. The victims and the texting drivers tell their stories of loss, including the loss of loved ones.

This film is worth passing on to the young drivers in your life:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/16/212337606/herzog-plumbs-guilt-and-loss-wrought-by-texting-and-driving