Man using laptop in car gets killed
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Man using laptop in car gets killed
Attention diverting
By Adamson Rust: Tuesday 27 February 2007, 18:35
CBS NEWS said a bloke drove onto the wrong side of the road in America and cops claimed his laptop was still running, plugged into a so-called "cigarette lighter" although he was dead.
The report said the 28 year old guy was a computer teacher and his car collided with a vehicle described as a Hummer. The folk in the "Hummer" escaped unscathed.
Today, the UK police warned people using their mobile phones in cars that they faced disqualification and worse, as we reported earlier. This is because their attention might be diverted.
But perhaps the young man had a heart attack because his boss emailed him on his Crackberry. We daresay an inquest will be inaugurated - you cannot blame laptop, mobile phone, cigarette lighter, or type of car until all the facts are ascertained.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/national/main2519498.shtml -
AP) Authorities say a man who appeared to be driving while using his laptop computer died Monday when his vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic near Yuba City and collided with a Hummer.
California Highway Patrol officers investigating the accident say they found the victim's computer still running and plugged into the cigarette lighter of his Honda Accord.
The name of the dead man, a 28-year-old computer tutor from Chico, Calif., has not yet been released.
Police say the couple inside the Hummer escaped the collision with bumps and bruises.
The crash, near the intersection of highways 99 and 113 about 30 miles north of Sacramento, totaled both vehicles and closed a section of Highway 99 south of Yuba City for about two hours.