Posted on 08/12/2016 5:29:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono
CENTER CITY, Pa., A couple traveling on a stretch of Pennsylvania freeway captured video of a woman steering her car with her feet while using both hands to text.
Sarah and Shawn Delong captured video of the woman using her feet to steady the steering wheel while traveling on the Schuylkill Expressway in Center City.
"Someone is going to get killed, that's why I was so mad. You see people on their phones all the time, but that took the cake," Sarah Delong told WPVI-TV. "For a good 20 minutes we were in her vicinity whether it was beside her or behind her."
The Delongs said they tried to get the woman's attention.
"At one point we beeped at her and I yelled 'get off your phone!' And she looked and smirked at me and went right back to doing whatever it was on her phone," Sarah Delong said.
Shawn Delong said he was baffled by the spectacle.
"I've seen people reading and writing with their documents, but not driving with your feet!" Shawn said.
The video emerged just days after a woman driving on a stretch of Colorado interstate was recorded focusing on her phone behind the wheel while resting a leg on the dashboard.
There’s a reason it’s called the “Sure Kill” expressway.
A soon to be Darwin Award winner.
They should have gotten behind her, took a video of her licence plate, then called police.
They should have gotten behind her, took a video of her licence plate, then called police.
I wonder how well she can drive with a smart phone violently lodged in her rectum. Could she still text with the phone in that configuration? Would it distract her from driving. Local LEO should give her a hand with trying it out.
Several years ago I was driving to work near Pensacola, FL. A van came up on me doing more than 80 mph and as he passed I looked over and saw that he was looking at a laptop on the console, had a clipboard on the steering wheel, and a phone in his ear.
Couple years ago I was riding behind the driver of an Expedition.
We were on I-95 between Richmond and DC.
Up that high I could peer into the cars to our left.
The number of people texting while driving was amazing.
That’s a very busy stretch of road.
There is an epidemic of head on and single car accidents, running off the road, hitting trees, ditches, drifting into the other lane.
I’ll bet more than 90% can be attributed to texting while driving.
I like the idea of getting evidence of this sort of thing and then simply reporting the culprits to the police, but in this case it looks like the person who took the picture was driving while snapping the photo.
I see it everyday.
Correct. But the problem with that is that she will take one or more innocents with her. Now, if she just hits a telephone pole, a big tree, or a freight train, no harm, no foul.It is only her.
And to think I used to think years ago people flying down the interstate reading the newspaper were a##hole idiots.
...Not to make excuses for her, but it should be noted that this car was probably inching along in traffic while all of this was going on.....
The video showed that she was driving at regular traveling speed
I always wonder when folks have their feet on the dash board, out the window, legs between their torso and dash or wheel, dog on the lap, etc., what happens when the airbag deploys?
That's the way it is with drunk drivers. They cause a bad automobile accident that ends up killing a whole family then get out of their vehicle unscathed. This happens more often than most people think.
If that’s the case, then I stand corrected. I’m trying to figure out how someone spends 20 minutes driving on the Schuykill Expressway in Center City Philadelphia and travels at “regular traveling speed.”
“From the passenger seat of their car, Sarah started recording on her phone.
The Delongs followed the woman’s car for quite a while, and her distracted driving continued.
“For a good 20 minutes we were in her vicinity whether it was beside her or behind her,” Sarah said.
Sarah and Shawn did try to get her to stop her dangerous activity.
“At one point we beeped at her and I yelled ‘get off your phone!’ And she looked and smirked at me and went right back to doing whatever it was on her phone,” Sarah said.
“I’ve seen people reading and writing with their documents, but not driving with your feet!” Shawn said.
The Delongs say there were points where the woman was swerving.
“To see her on 76 and then going down towards Center City, that I couldn’t believe,” Shawn said.”
http://6abc.com/news/woman-caught-on-video-texting-driving-with-feet/1465137/
Oh, Joe!
I drive my buggy with my knees every day while talking/texting/eating on my way to the liquor store.
[Costanza] Is that wrong?
I saw no clip of a MOVING vehicle.
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