Her boyfriend should be charged comment? Are you kidding me???? Not sure what fairy world you live in, however girls are far from innocent compared to men these days. 

How in the world can you jump from her taking a selfie to her boyfriend being responsible because he talked her into it?  First, your imagination is way ahead of you because nowhere does it say she was talked into anything?  In fact, nowhere does it say she was going to see a boyfriend or had talked to a boyfriend, just that she was going to send it to him -  you need to seperate fact from the fantasy you dreamed up. 

No excuse for driver. I am far from perfect and make mistakes myself and hate to pass judgement on anyone but this one was just too much. We all know the consequences of driving under the influence/distracted driving. Now, her boyfriend may have asked her to take a picture of her privates but she did not have to comply. She could have as easily pulled over somewhere out of site and took the picture quickly. You can be upseet at her boyfriend all you want but it was ultimately her decision to comply with his request while she was still driving.  This accident that could have easily led to her death, pedestrians, the officers or God forbid all of the above. Folks,  we make decisions everyday that not only effect us but possibly also those people around us. Fortunately for her and any pedestrians that may have been near by no one was killed or seriously injured. It could have definately been worse. Who wants to volunteer to tell the family of that officer or that young lady that their loved one was killed in an accident that could have been prevented. Not a job I would envy from anyone. People, please use your God given senses before you get behind that wheel. Nothing is that serious that can't wait until you are able to safely pull over somewhere or get home. Just a thought from a retired veteran. 

All modern cell phones have hardware that detects rate of speed. This is how apps like Waze indicate your speed of travel. It wuold be relatively trival to implement this into text apps, for instance blocking any kind of input (keyboard, speech) when a certain speed is exceeded. The question is getting the government to create laws around mobile phone safety standards. 

I get your concept, but clearly not well thought out. You can be a passenger and not driving, then what? Their phone should be shut off too? Also there are people in the world that are actually active. I as well as many other people take their phones with them while exercising and go well over a couple of miles per hour. Should our phones be disables too? And what if someone was running away from danger and trying to call 911, should their phones be disabled too for moving while having a phone on them? Not such a great idea. Not everyone with a phone carries it around to snapchap. Some of us carry our phones for work, safety, and responsible communication.

The LG G5 has AT&T Drivemode which turns on a few minutes after you start moving and locks you out of such functions on the phone unless you press the "Disable DriveMode" button, which would be very hard to press while driving.

Permalink-I love your idea.   Cell phone companies, are you listening??

Sounds like your friend should wear a seatbelt, most of the injuries described are common with someone hitting the steering wheel with their chesk and dashboard with knees/legs/wrist.  Please people, seatbelts save lives but also limit the critical injuries that take years to get past - and if someone in your vehicle isn't wearing their seatbelt it is still your problem, their body flying through the air and hitting you at 50mph is going to kill both of you . . . be safe friends!

We need pictures to prove this isn't more of that "fake news" the goverment keeps talking about.

Typical. There's most likely a time and a place for some of this. But neither is appropriate.  

How about only the idiots have Autos and the rest of us can drive freely?  There are problems with autos too.