This past spring, a trolley conductor in Boston was responsible for a trolley crash in which 49 people were taken to the hospital. One green rail trolley crashed into the rear-end of another causing both trolleys to derail. In what may have seemed like an ordinary mis-scheduling of trolleys, further investigation pointed to the cell phone records of one of the conductors. Upon reviewing his cell phone records, investigators concluded that he had been texting his girlfriend upon impact of the two trolleys.
This is just another classic case of what can happen when a person is operating machinery while distracted. How many cases have to happen like this before people learn, or before lawmakers start to imopose restrictions on texting while driving. What's next? Must we worry about a pilot landing a 747 while sending a text message? Is any text message that important and dire that it must be sent at that exact moment in time?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/ems_49_taken_to.html
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