This is a follow-up blog to the one I posted yesterday about the Utah State Board of Education “looking in to” cell phones and text messaging by its bus drivers. I suggested that a ban should be a “no brainer” and that the Board doesn’t need to wait until there is a bus accident or serious personal injury before acting decisively to prohibit bus drivers talking on phones or texting while driving. Now, according to KSL, the Board is wondering “if there is a problem” with bus drivers being on cell phones while they are driving and they are asking their administrators to “investigate immediately.”
I think some of the comments to this news story on KSL capture the appropriate public response to this:
One poster, Lowell F., in a comment entitled “this is a no-brainer,” said: “hey bus driver…. you have 40 school age children of ours in your care…. stay off the cell phone and watch the road closely. Or get another carreer like telemarketing. How can there even be any question in a school districts mind as to what the policy should be?”
Another poster, Ben D., in a comment entitled “Oh Brother!!!, said: “This is one of those “Well, DUH” stories that comes along every so often. JUDAS!!! Yes, school bus drivers should not be talking on the phone while on the job, nor should they be texting while they drive. This should be common knowledge, but so many people in today’s world need everything spelled out to them.”
I echo this sentiment. An ounce of prevention is surely worth a pound of cure.
Ron Kramer is a Utah personal injury attorney who represents victims of car accidents who have been injured because of the negligence of those who use a cell phone and/or text message while driving.
Published by: Ron Kramer
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