Girl in Fatal Wreck Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash »
Posted By monte-g 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsAuthorities say a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident. Kayla Preuss, of Highland, CA was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and crashed. She died of head injuries. Authorities say Preuss had been driving drunk and was speeding. But another factor may have contributed to the crash. Phone records show Preuss was texting just before the accident. Her cell phone, which was flipped open, was found resting on the floorboard by her feet.
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normallysilent1 year, 3 months ago
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Just a few weeks ago a car in OH went left of center into a string of motorcycles going the other way missing the 1st but hitting the next 3 bikes with 2 people on each. I heard the cause was that the young driver of the car was texting.
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youniqu1011 year, 3 months ago
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That story is not true. That accident happend just outside my sisters front door. On State Route 5 in Ravenna, Ohio. The guy dropped someting and leaned down to try to retrieve it when he hit the second bike, the first bike swerved and missed him yelling to him to watch out. He didn't hear them.....he then hit the bikes. Two people lost a leg, one man and one woman. The mans leg was taken off right then and there before he was sent to the hospital. At any rate....cell phones do cause more accidents than we want to admit. There needs to be a national law prohibiting them from being used in a moving vehicle. I know there is such a law in some states, but no one pays any attention to it. Why is this???
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tatiana36ddd1 year, 3 months ago
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It is indeed very sad. I think there is a lesson to be learned here. People should really be informed of how damaging and fatal texting can be sometimes. If people paid more attention to things like this maybe we would have less accidents.
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Spinward1 year, 3 months ago
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One would only hope.
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I had a 16 year-old daughter, sorry to admit :-), that was fighting with her boyfriend in the parking lot after school. He walked away and she got in her car and decided to "scare him" by "pretending" to attempt to run him over...
I heard about it.
She wrote a letter of apology to the school, the boy, and his parents. She lost the car, the cell phone, and was restricted to the house after the bus ride home every day for the remaining three months of the school year. Lesson learned? Who knows, but she never tried a stunt like that again.
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liza995071 year, 3 months ago
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Park to talk or text. Please America, get the message, it is unsafe to drive with one hand or with your knees. Just about every road has a shoulder, pull over and talk or text. Now some people are having DVD players installed in the "front seat", why? So they can drive and watch a movie at the same time? I don't think so. Driving requires concentration. Please don't talk or text on your phone while driving. In Alaska, we've had many people killed in the past several years because of this.
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JV621 year, 3 months ago
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PN..... At first I told my daughter that the phone did not have texting ability (even though it did, but it was an additional fee per text). Her friends told her ALL phones can text unless it was taken off by the owner. She was texting, not old enough to drive. Anyway, she got the bill for the texting, it was a cure right then and there. I show her stories like this in hopes it sinks in before she's driving.
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Ashley83871 year, 3 months ago
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Wow!!! You removed text features off of your kids phones. You should get a perfect parent award. If only the 16 year olds parents did that maybe the girl would be alive . Talking on a cell phone while driving is no different than texting. If you look away for a second your car can slam into a tree or a car. What about changing a CD or changing the channel on the radio or reaching for your soda for a drink or looking over your shoulder to get into the next lane? Maybe you should take more things away from your kids and they will live FOREVER. What about the alcohol part of this story????
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ZaneZanthus1 year, 3 months ago
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The solution should be we need to teach our children better but we all know that's not so easy. We need restrictions to help us with this. Taking away the texting options does exactly what ari1016 said: it removes the temptation. If they can't text, then they can't spend every moment of their little lives blah-blahing with their friends all day about nonsense when instead they should be concentrating on other important areas of their lives. Kids are too addicted to cell phones to have sense enough to resist temptation. We need to control it for them. That's a parent's right.
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starothesea1 year, 3 months ago
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I agree that they must learn right place-wrong place, but I do think texting is hurting our children. Someone told me yesterday that schools were seriously talking about taking basic English lessons out of their lesson plans because kids today do nothing but text. No longer do they want to waste their time on punctuation, proper use of paragraphs, even proper spelling because the kids don't pay attention to it. I don't know how true this is, but I think they should learn these skills before being given the ability to shorten them in texting. Or is this the dumbing down of America that I have been hearing about? Oh how I miss the days of black and white! I thought kids were supposed to get smarter?
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PN1 year, 3 months ago
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What do you mean my poor children. If I didn't give them booze, would you say my poor children??!!! If I didn't let them have sex would you say my poor children??!!! If I didn't let them do drugs would you say my poor children??!! I FOR ONE, PUT LIMITS ON MY CHILDREN AND EXPECT THEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!!! Teachers at my daughters middle school have commented that they have PARENTS texting their kids during class----if some of you so called PARENTS don't even set limits on yourselves how do you expect your kids to set limits and learn right from wrong!!!???? to rachel262612----do you set ANY limits on your kids or are they some of those that get EVERYTHING they want!!!!!
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ZaneZanthus1 year, 3 months ago
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What are you saying exactly? Walking and chewing gum indicates that a person is not smart enough to do so. Texting or drinking and driving is simply too dangerous for everyone, regardless of their intelligence or ability to do both. Texting/drinking and driving is nowhere near the same as walking and chewing gum.
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wildman751541 year, 3 months ago
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Kids sometimes do stupid things and thankfully no one else was hurt. However, the circumstances don't prevent me from feeling very sad about this. I have 2 kids and would be devastated if something like this happened to them. You can tell teenagers "don't do this" or "be sure and don't do that", but they still think they know almost everything. It breaks your heart.
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pderoo11 year, 3 months ago
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I live in a rural area and read the accident reports each week. They list names and ages, and most of the accidents are caused by 17-22 year olds. We lost 11 kids one Friday night several years ago in 2 different accidents. A 1-car accident took 4 kids. The 16 yo driver had just gotten her car 2 weeks before and was driving fast on a hilly dirt road trying to "catch air". Instead she caught a huge old oak tree and the car burst into flames in the ditch. The second involved two cars on another dirt road at a curve. The teenage driver of the car that caused that one didn't stay far enough to the right, apparently assuming it was clear coming the opposite way. It wasn't, he hit an oncoming pickup head on. What a tragedy that night was.
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echase20021 year, 3 months ago
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Hey PsychoHosebeast, did you really say we are lucky she died?? To bad you didnt get hit by her car. You mean to tell me that you never did anything stupid growing up?? This can be used to teach others, but to say that, your an idiot.
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tigger990211 year, 3 months ago
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What a waste of a young life. I live in Washington State where it's illegal to talk on your cell phone but it can't be enforced unless you're pulled over for something else. Stupid huh? It's a whole lot of fun to be sitting at a stop light and have a multi-ton semi trying to turn the corner because the driver won't put down the cell phone. The cops in this state all talk on their cell phones while they drive too. If they're going to have a hands free law they need to enforce it and abide by it too. Texting is just plain stupid when you're driving. This girl did everything wrong that could be done wrong and paid the ultimate price for her youth and stupidity. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family.
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Terochenton1 year, 3 months ago
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Some of you people are so insensitive as as Culling the herd you are very sick who is to say she really WAS driving drunk or texting you believe everything jmdia says shame on you for pete sake you sicken me a child is dead thats not culling the herd you people some of you are sick and should be culled from the herd how dre you have such an insesitivity twards one so young Authorities 99.9 percent of the time dont have their facts straight
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hotsalsasue1 year, 3 months ago
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I keep hearing how stupid she was and almost to the point of saying she deserved it. She was a child as we all were at one time. Anybody out there going to tell me that they didn't have a party when their parents went away and drank from the liquior cabnet and then let their friends drive home? Or go down the Jersey shore and party (under age) and jump from the balcony of the hotel into the pool? My brother and I used to drag race on the hi-way I had a '72 Mustang and he had a Cobra and I being a girl if I got caught... forget about. My point is we all did stupid things and we thank God ,now as adults, we didn't hurt anyone else, but she paid the ultimate price.
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Terochenton1 year, 3 months ago
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Well said I think some people just dont have a sensitive bone in their body like the first commenter "Culling the herd" so to speak some people need help is all I have to say to even believe in what they hear from authorities who 99.9 percent of the time are wrong
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ZaneZanthus1 year, 3 months ago
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Well I personally don't believe in God but I'm sure there are some thanking God he took her early for her stupidty and everyone else who was killed in a drunk driving accident. So, if this God that supposedly is responsible for every single thing and knows every single thing to come is real, then I thank him/her/it for taking stupid people early before they had a chance to take someone with them. I also am confused why such an all powerful, all loving, all knowing God would allow stupid people to take others with them. Then again, this is why I don't believe in God in the first place.
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It's simple: we're responsible for our own actions. These actions can have consequences. There should be laws to control the dangerous actions so that the innocent are protected. These laws should be enforced. Her parents should be charged with negligence in failing to raise her child with common sense. This should be a message to other parents: raise your children right. If they get drunk, then whatever consequences occur will be on your head. Using your cell phone under the age of 18 while driving in most states is illegal anyway. Not to mention drinking under the age of 21, plus drinking and driving for any age. The point isn't "we all did stupid things". The point is these stupid things should be controlled as best as we can. You should be lucky you didn't cause any harm with the stupid things you did. Thanking God is retarded.
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modfool1 year, 3 months ago
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Cell-phone use, texting or otherwise, is illegal in both NY and NJ, but I have never seen it enforced. Drivers pass patrol cars, laughing away on their phones with total impunity. And ladies, sorry, but 90% of the time it is the fairer sex. Until serious fines are attached ($50 first offense, $500 second, $1000 third, suspended license fourth, revoked fifth), people will continue to yap and text away. It infuriates me. When I can, I try to irritate the cellheads who are in front of me. Either I just lean on the horn or I make it difficult for them to switch lanes and the such. I've gotten into arguments with the cellheads, and it's amazing how they feel "entitled" to do what they want. What are they going to say when they kill your kid? "Sorry, but I just had to tell my girlfirend about who I saw at the mall."?
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Ashley83871 year, 3 months ago
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Wow!! You are an idiot... Leaning on your horn or making it difficult for people to switch lanes is just as bad as talking on a cell phone. Are you trying to make the person crash and die? I do not have a cell phone and I do not care if someone talks on their phone. I have had a family member die in a car accident from being distracted by the radio. Should we remove radios too? Why do you feel entitled to be pain in the ass to someone that chooses to talk on their phone? The real part of this story is that a 16 YEAR OLD WAS DRINKING. Screw the cell phone. People die everyday from drunk drivers. Do you lean on the horn when you see a drunk driver too?
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