
Originally Posted by
Archerfish
Accident caused by picking up the coffee?
So I have a colleague driving along TPLEX (or SCTEX, can't remember) and her phone made an SMS notification. She picked it up to see and dropped it right away.
As she went to see the road ahead, she noticed that her Hyundai Accent was veering away from her lane. She abruptly turned the steering wheel to keep to her lane.
Unfortunately, the car made a sharp turn and so she countered it by turning the wheel opposite of its direction. It made a sharp turn again and so she tried to correct it, such that she made a few zigzags along the road before the car "flew away from the road".
Yes! The car did fly, according to her. She described her dog floating, as if the moment was taking forever as it looked to her in amazement, then the dog landed as her car made a "landing on the runway".
She was a bit annoyed as I asked her, perhaps out of embarrassment, as she explained that she was getting tired of retelling the same story all over again, to every people she met asking the same thing.
Well, perhaps I'll be the future "Boy Abunda" as I just smiled and told her that I want the story straight from her.
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Since it is against the law to use your phone while driving, having a coffee while driving might as well be included in that law.
By the way, she ditched her Hyundai Accent and replaced it with white Isuzu Dmax. She said that she feels being bullied with her small car.
I find it amusing that she picked up that large vehicle, with her small stature, that she needed a pillow so that she can have a better view on whatever is on her front.