Carelessness takes away one life and ruins another. 19 year old Rachel Begg killed Maureen Waites, 64, last year as the teenager heavily used her phone while driving. Begg was recently sentenced to prison for the crime. 

According to the Post Chronicle, Begg sent and received multiple calls and text messages in the fifteen minutes prior to the accident. The teenager crashed into Maureen, a grandmother, while driving 70 mph in the rain. Begg was a bank worker hoping to one day become an accountant.

Although justice is served here (or some may argue justice could never be served in such a situation), it irritates me that this is how we have to learn to be cautious while driving. Driving is a task all its own, and yet many of us find it necessary to multitask while operating a machine that could end lives at any moment. Regardless, a similar incident is bound to happen again.

The judge sentenced Begg to four years in prison and condemned her careless driving. “To send a text message is even more perilous at night in a darkened car.”

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Entry was posted on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 at 11:31 pm under Cell phones.

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