I'm sorry the homework is a late today. I had to take my mom to the airport this morning.

Which brings me to my homework...not what I originally had planned, but very important none the less.

The homework is for EVERYONE to wear their seatbelts, ALL THE TIME. Drive carefully, and pay attention while driving.

We witnessed a horrible, horrible wreck on I-75 this morning. An SUV crossed 5 lanes of traffic, hit the wall head on, and flipped several times. I'm amazed that there wasn't a pile up with traffic stopping and no other accidents happened as a result. It was truly terrifying, and I think DS is still a bit traumatized from it.

I know we are all working so hard at taking care of ourselves, and trying to be healthy, and we need to remember that preventing accidents of all kinds, not just traffic, are part of that too.

Dawn

My rule is everyone's seatbelt is on before I will drive the car, even those in the back seat who are not required by law to buckle up. I come from a time before cars came with seatbelts. One of my cousins had bought seatbelts to install in his car when his wife got home from work. She had a wreck and was killed on the way home that day.
As for cell phones. Our rule is not to talk while driving. If I am driving and the phone rings, dd answers it for me & vice versa. I see so many people driving and talking and not only is their attention divided but if they are using their left hand to hold the phone it blocks their view of that outside mirrow. I was almost hit by a car mergeing onto the freeway because the driver was on the phone and did not see me in her left outside mirror.

Thanks for the homework. Good reminder.

Excellent homework....another addition to this is to make sure if you have children under your state's requirements for child safety seats that you have their installation safety checked (any police department, sherriff's department and highway patrol department as well as many auto ins. agencies have people that do this for you free of charge). And please make sure your children are properly secured IN their safety seats. I have a very dear friend that doesn't buckle her children in properly...they buckle the chest things, but not the bottom buckle thing, and I tell her EVERYTIME I see it to make sure she does it properly....but next time she does the same thing, so I KNOW that she is only doing it properly when I remind her.

Thank you soooo much Dawn.

My sil was in a horrible wreck - multi car collision on the freeway. Actually, she caused the accident, driving and talking on the cell phone. Thankfully, no one was killed.

In the past, she ONLY called me on her cell phone and only from the car. It always really bugged me that I was not important enough for her to "spend" a few minutes and call me... and that a phone call to me was a "task" to be done while multi tasking. She felt very pressed for time and being in the car was spent driving, talking on phone ("hold on, I'm changing lanes..."), talking to kids in back seat, changing CD's, etc.

Eventually, the multi tasking while driving and lack of full attention to ANY of the tasks caught up with her.