Taylor Sauer knew facebooking while
driving was a bad idea.
The 18-year-old college student said so in
her last status update: "I can't discuss this
now. Driving and facebooking is not safe!
Haha."
At the time, Sauer was driving 80 mph
from the Utah State University campus in
Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho,
and was passing the time on the four-
hour drive by messaging her friend about
the Denver Broncos, according to
MSNBC.com
Moments after her last update, she
crashed her car into a tanker truck that
was going 15 mph up a hill and was killed
instantly.
Investigators weren't able to find signs
that Sauer applied the brakes before her
fatal crash, but, after checking cell phone
records, they did discover she was
posting about every 90 seconds during
her drive, according to Idaho State Police
Lt. Sheldon Kelley.
"The text messages were both incoming
and outgoing during her trip between
Logan, Utah [and the accident scene],"
Kelley told the Salt Lake Tribune. "In
addition to the texting, there were
multiple Facebook communications to and
from Taylor Sauer during the minutes
immediately prior to the crash."
"The text messages were both incoming
and outgoing during her trip between
Logan, Utah [and the accident scene],"
Kelley added. "In addition to the texting,
there were multiple Facebook
communications to and from Taylor Sauer
during the minutes immediately prior to
the crash."
That was January 14 and her parents, Clay
and Shauna Sauer, are trying to make
sense of the crash and prevent future
tragedies.
"I think she was probably (texting) to stay
awake, she was probably tired," Taylor's
dad, Clay Sauer, told Today Show host Ann
Curry. "But that's not a reason to do it,
and the kids think they're invincible. To
them, (texting) is not distracting, they're
so proficient at texting, that they don't
feel it's distracted driving."
The Sauer family is now lobbying Idaho
legislators to put a ban on texting while
driving, according to the Daily Mail,.
Idaho is one of 13 states which hasn't
made texting while driving illegal, but
Shauna Sauer believes Taylor would
approve of the new law.
"This is what she would want us to do,"
she told Curry.
The texting and driving ban has already
passed through Idaho’s state senate, and
it could travel to the house as early as
Tuesday.
Taylor's father, Clay Sauer, said he hopes
such a ban would teach drivers that
texting and driving is unsafe and
unacceptable from a young age, "like the
importance of wearing a seatbelt,"
reported KTVB.com.
"I think every state should have this law,"
he added.
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