- Church Van Hit By Texting Driver
- Almost Hit By Texting Driver
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When Kuchler ran up to the truck, the driver, 20-year-old Jack D. Young, was injured -- but alive. A witness said a pickup truck driver was texting while driving when he collided with a Texas. Milwaukee mom Valetta Bradford and her son Xzavier, who was paralyzed by a texting driver three years ago, are featured in a new national campaign and documentary about distracted driving.
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Church Van Hit By Texting Driver
Jody Kuchler watched as the erratic pickup driver plowed head-on into a van carrying senior citizens returning from a church seminar in Texas Wednesday, killing 13 on board.
“The noise of the crash was very loud and everything was in slow motion,” Kuchler said by phone.
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They looked both ways before crossing the street but a young driver ran through a stop sign when texting while driving. Xzavier was hit and literally pulled from his sister’s grasp. The vehicle dragged him for more than 20 ft. Xzavier underwent 9 surgeries and spent four and a half months in the ICU. There is no better way to show young drivers what can happen in a serious accident that might be caused by texting and driving than to show them someone personally affected. I can remember years ago when the police department used to set up wrecked cars outside of schools to show teens the.
- Awareness of the It Can Wait message increased 26 percent during the period of the first-ever 'National No Text on Board Day' in September 2012. One-in-three people in that period said that texting while driving messages have an impact on their driving habits (AT&T Texting while driving- ICW Perceptions Study).
- Xzavier Davis-Bilbo was five years old in 2010 when he was hit while crossing the street. The driver was texting and driving and according to the radio spot, the woman didn’t even stop. She didn’t even slow down to notice that she had hit a little boy.
- About half of parents talk on a cell phone while driving when their children between the ages of 4 and 10 are in the car, while one in three read text messages and one in seven use social media.
Almost Hit By Texting Driver
When Kuchler ran up to the truck, the driver, 20-year-old Jack D. Young, was injured -- but alive.
“He said, ‘I’m sorry, ‘I’m sorry, I was texting,’” Kuchler said. “And I said, ‘Son, do you realize what you just did?’ He just said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’ but he wasn’t crying -- he wasn’t none of that.”
Kuchler and his girlfriend had followed Young for 12 minutes before the deadly wreck and made a frantic call to the Real County Sheriff Department: “I’m following this guy, he’s in a white Dodge dually. He’s all over the road. Both sides. Somebody needs to stop this guy.”
They took pictures and recorded Young as several cars swerved out of the truck’s path.
“He’s gonna hit someone head-on or he’s gonna kill his own damn self,” Kuchler says on the 911 call. “Somebody needs to get this guy off the road.”
Xzavier Hit By Texting Driver For Macbook
The lone survivor in the bus crash is in critical condition. The truck driver is stable. The NTSB plans to talk to both of them.