Taylor Sauer Died While Driving And Facebooking; Now Parents Want To Make It Illegal - Taylor Sauer knew facebooking while driving was a bad idea.
The 18-year-old college student said so in her last status update: "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."
Taylor Sauer died january 14 after she ran into a tanker truck. Investigators discovered that she had been texting every 90 seconds. As a result, her parents are trying to get the Idaho State Legislature to ban texting while driving
At the time, Sauer was driving 80 mph from the Utah State University campus in Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho, and was passing the time on the four-hour drive by messaging her friend about the Denver Broncos, according to MSNBC.com
Moments after her last update, she crashed her car into a tanker truck that was going 15 mph up a hill and was killed instantly.
Investigators weren't able to find signs that Sauer applied the brakes before her fatal crash, but, after checking cell phone records, they did discover she was posting about every 90 seconds during her drive, according to Idaho State Police Lt. Sheldon Kelley.
"The text messages were both incoming and outgoing during her trip between Logan, Utah [and the accident scene]," Kelley told the Salt Lake Tribune. "In addition to the texting, there were multiple Facebook communications to and from Taylor Sauer during the minutes immediately prior to the crash."
That was January 14 and her parents, Clay and Shauna Sauer, are trying to make sense of the crash and prevent future tragedies.
"I think she was probably (texting) to stay awake, she was probably tired," Taylor's dad, Clay Sauer, told Today Show host Ann Curry. "But that's not a reason to do it, and the kids think they're invincible. To them, (texting) is not distracting, they're so proficient at texting, that they don't feel it's distracted driving."
The Sauer family is now lobbying Idaho legislators to put a ban on texting while driving, according to the Daily Mail,.
Idaho is one of 13 states which hasn't made texting while driving illegal, but Shauna Sauer believes Taylor would approve of the new law.
"This is what she would want us to do," she told Curry.
The texting and driving ban has already passed through Idaho's state senate, and it could travel to the house as early as Tuesday.
Taylor's father, Clay Sauer, said he hopes such a ban would teach drivers that texting and driving is unsafe and unacceptable from a young age, "like the importance of wearing a seatbelt," reported KTVB.com.
"I think every state should have this law," he added. ( aol.com )
The 18-year-old college student said so in her last status update: "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."
Taylor Sauer died january 14 after she ran into a tanker truck. Investigators discovered that she had been texting every 90 seconds. As a result, her parents are trying to get the Idaho State Legislature to ban texting while driving
At the time, Sauer was driving 80 mph from the Utah State University campus in Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho, and was passing the time on the four-hour drive by messaging her friend about the Denver Broncos, according to MSNBC.com
Moments after her last update, she crashed her car into a tanker truck that was going 15 mph up a hill and was killed instantly.
Investigators weren't able to find signs that Sauer applied the brakes before her fatal crash, but, after checking cell phone records, they did discover she was posting about every 90 seconds during her drive, according to Idaho State Police Lt. Sheldon Kelley.
"The text messages were both incoming and outgoing during her trip between Logan, Utah [and the accident scene]," Kelley told the Salt Lake Tribune. "In addition to the texting, there were multiple Facebook communications to and from Taylor Sauer during the minutes immediately prior to the crash."
That was January 14 and her parents, Clay and Shauna Sauer, are trying to make sense of the crash and prevent future tragedies.
"I think she was probably (texting) to stay awake, she was probably tired," Taylor's dad, Clay Sauer, told Today Show host Ann Curry. "But that's not a reason to do it, and the kids think they're invincible. To them, (texting) is not distracting, they're so proficient at texting, that they don't feel it's distracted driving."
The Sauer family is now lobbying Idaho legislators to put a ban on texting while driving, according to the Daily Mail,.
Idaho is one of 13 states which hasn't made texting while driving illegal, but Shauna Sauer believes Taylor would approve of the new law.
"This is what she would want us to do," she told Curry.
The texting and driving ban has already passed through Idaho's state senate, and it could travel to the house as early as Tuesday.
Taylor's father, Clay Sauer, said he hopes such a ban would teach drivers that texting and driving is unsafe and unacceptable from a young age, "like the importance of wearing a seatbelt," reported KTVB.com.
"I think every state should have this law," he added. ( aol.com )
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