Woman Posts To Facebook While Driving With Tragic Consequences
Here’s another example of technology tragically
taking over our lives in ways which seem so simple to prevent.
This woman, Courtney Sanford, was on her way to
work. The song “Happy” came on the radio and the young woman had the sudden
impulse to take a “selfie” photo of herself while driving to show everyone on
Facebook that she was in her car listening to this particular song, and that it
made her happy.

Regrettably, Courtney did not pull over to take
the picture. While still driving, she opened her phone’s photo application,
framed the shot, smiled, snapped the photo, and then posted it to Facebook.
While Courtney was submitting her post, her car veered across the center
median into oncoming traffic traveling at 45 miles per hour.

Courtney’s Corolla collided with a 24,000 pound
recycling truck, the car left the road, impacted a tree and burst into flames.

Courtney was killed instantly. She worked in
the healthcare industry and was a college graduate with two degrees. Four days
after the crash her parents, grandmother, and her two brothers laid her to
rest. Courtney was 32 years old.

Courtney posted her selfie to Facebook that
fateful day at 8:33 AM. Police and Fire crews received the first 911 call one
minute later, at 8:34 AM.

At the scene of the accident
Courtney’s cell phone was retrieved from the wreckage with her Facebook
post still on the screen. Her last words were “The happy song makes me HAPPY”.

When discussing the accident with the media,
Police Lieutenant Chris Weisner made the grim comparison between Courtney’s
accident and the many public service advertisements aired to warn against the
dangers of texting while driving.

Weisner said “we’ve all seen these graphic
advertisements on TV, this was real life”.

A video of Weisner’s interview, with footage
from one of these ads, is provided below.
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The story of Courtney’s accident and its
unfortunate cause has been widely reported on television, in newspapers, and
online. It is one of many similar stories that happen all too frequently.

Courtney was a young, attractive woman in the
prime of her life. Her death is made all the more tragic because it was so
totally preventable.

All of the images of Courtney used in this
article have something in common, they are all “selfies” taken with a cell
phone. Selfies have become commonplace in our society, we all take them, some
of us even do so while driving. If you do, please stop, there are too many
flower bouquets planted along the sides of our highways already.

Please SHARE this story with your friends to raise awareness and to keep our loved ones safe.
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