An incredibly disturbing public service announcement produced in the UK has been procured by the North and South Carolina regional Automobile Association of America (AAA) in its campaign to stop texting while driving. Titled “You Text – You Drive – You Die”, the video will air on 20 cable channels in the Carolinas starting this week.
Trauma surgeons like to say there are no vehicle accidents, collisions are caused by people deliberately doing stupid things. Nothing could be made more clear in this video. This is trauma, and it kills 170,000 people in the United States every year. Even with such graphic warnings, trauma surgeons will continue to try to put people back together after traumatic injuries like those shown in the video. Sometimes they are successful, but too often they’re not because they don’t have the right tools.
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