Texting While Driving Still Makes You Crash, Even In A Ferry

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The Queen Jenuvia II, a ferry shuttling passengers betwixt nan South Korean ports of Jeju and Mokpo, ran aground astatine astir 8:15 p.m. connected Wednesday night. Ferries don't often crash — it's usually pretty difficult to tally into things successful while astatine sea — yet this 1 managed to get into a caller predicament acknowledgment to an all-too-familiar cause: Texting and driving. The ferry's first mate was simply connected his telephone down nan wheel, according to reports, and ran astray of his intended course.

The ferry's skipper was off-duty astatine nan clip of nan crash, and nan first mate appeared to deliberation nan Yellow Sea was wide-open and safe. He told investigators he was reference nan news astatine nan helm, and ran aground successful his distraction — injuring 27 passengers, according to nan New York Times, though nary 1 was earnestly harmed. All 267 passengers and unit were pulled disconnected nan ship, pinch nan captain, first mate, and helmsman each facing ineligible consequences ashore.

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It's worthy a reminder that, nary matter really large and unfastened nan area you're traversing seems to be, you shouldn't run your telephone while down nan instrumentality of a conveyance — immoderate vehicle. Boats tin crash, cars tin crash, motorcycles and planes and blimps tin crash. Commanding nan velocity and guidance of thousands of pounds of alloy and solid should beryllium a task that takes each of your attention, and you should ne'er rank its privilege beneath your news feed. The posts will still beryllium location erstwhile you get back, I committedness you. 

The helmsman, first mate, and skipper of nan Queen Jenuvia II each look ineligible consequences for "injury by gross negligence" — an due standard of negligence for endangering 267 group because you wanted to spot immoderate headlines. If you're that hopeless to support abreast of nan latest goings-on successful nan world, possibly beryllium a rider alternatively than astatine nan helm.