Police are still searching for an unidentified white male wearing a long scarf who fled the scene shortly after the crash. Witnesses say that he appeared intoxicated.

According to one eyewitness to the crash, a man wearing celery on his lapel, the man with the scarf disappeared and "won't be showing that face of his again".

What's sad about it? Darwin Award winner got it without taking out someone else in to process, as often happens.

Not only that, but she got to die happy.

I don't know about rates, but if you look up the most common causes of car accidents, distracted driving (including cell phone use) always places before drunk driving. Usually it's the number one spot.

Her cutting her own life short is what's sad. 32 is relatively young, and it's hard to say what kind of life and what kind of people she left behind. Other than being a dangerous idiot on the road, she was probably a lovely person with some good qualities. But yes, thankfully the other driver was not hurt.

I get you, Bel. Just having difficulty getting past the "sociopathic disregard for other drivers" quality that caused the accident.

Not sure why you'd assume sociopathic rather than just stupid.

If we stop pretending, for a second, to be cynical dicks, then yes, it is sad.

It could always be that middle where the ven diagram of stupid and sociopathic overlap

Mistakes were made. Who could have known?

Also, I see myself as more of a pha-realist than a dick cynic.

...or you owned a Ham radio.

How else are we supposed to creep on pictures of our hot underage cousins and their friends?

Guys come on, 20 years ago it was 1994. You could call people on the phone then. They were unwieldy but you could even get a cell phone at the time.

"It can't be too long before I see a bus wipe out a flock of bankers."

don't jinx it!

I was riding in a car that was parallel to some asshole in a ridiculous looking raised truck, texting. I couldn't believe my eyes, because the guy was obviously not looking at the road and we were doing 40mph. I mean he was holding the phone up to the steering wheel, with his wrists holding the wheel, while he was casually hunched over relaxed with his face buried into the screen, fingers flailing around typing out something funny (he was smiling). Before I could reach over and honk the driver's horn, we were slowing for a stoplight and KABOOM! The only thing that stopped him from flying into the intersection and killing someone was a compact car trying to make a right.

I mean, I heard that people do this, but when I actually saw the extent this guy was not paying attention...it makes me sick with rage. Completely oblivious to the world immediately around him in his entitled, self centered little universe. I get the impression he knew what he was doing was stupid and dangerous, but fuck the consequences, right? I mean, he's in a gigantic fucking truck. I wish I would have been allowed to force feed him his phone.

Someone almost ran me and my girlfriend off the road because they were texting as I got back from the hospital last night. He actually pushed us off onto our exit on-ramp, so we just went home instead of following him and strangling him.

ha

seriously. fuck anyone who makes posts like that.

What about people who post selfies?

(....the lady was also posting selfies before she crashed.)