Texting blamed in crash that kills 3 Teens
The irresponsibility of Sarah Brown (19) cost the life of three young girls who were coming back from a party in Talagante early this morning. Reports say that the driver was texting while driving, which cause her car to rundown a sign in the road and trespass the sidewalk crashing with a tree.
Over 300 people die each year in Chile for texting while driving. The Government is alarmed by the high figures that they are receiving day by day and by the irresponsibility of drivers.
Sarah Brown was only one of them; she and three friends went to a party this Saturday night outside of Santiago, in their way back, they where all talking about the amazing night they had, talking on their cellular phones with other friends and texting. The problem was that Sarah was texting too.
As she explained to the police “Everything happened so fast, in one second I looked away to see my cellular phone and as I closed my eyes we where stuck on a huge tree beside the road”.
She was the only one that was using her seatbelt, which was the reason why she was the only one who survived. The other three friends indentified as Carmen López (18) Camila Mora (18) and Valentina Palma (17) died instantly as they hit the tree.
Police reports say, “The three of them where already dead when we arrived, one of the got trapped in the car and the other two went through the glass outside the car, the driver was also trapped but fireman could managed to take her out on time”.
Families where immediately informed about the car crash and funerals are going to take place in Iglesia Los Dominicos this Sunday afternoon.
Investigation is being made to determine the cause of the accident, sources in the fire department tell us “By the way the driver act and by the way everything is displayed in scene, we think it is another case of texting while driving”.
This show us how citizens, teenagers specially, are irresponsible while they drive, government are taking measures to avoid and reduce this figures every year, new campaigns are being made and they hope to get good results, as Alejandra Herrera, head of the government campaign “Don’t text and drive” explains us.
“We just started with the campaign, but we have the hopes that this will work and this way, we will avoid many deaths every year”.
