A cou­ple of days ago there was a head on col­li­sion on a main high­way about an hour away from here. It is a road I travel at least once or twice a month. It hap­pened dur­ing the day. I was on that road ear­lier in the day. The weather was not a fac­tor. Some­one using their cell phone to either call or text was. They swerved into the other lane. Now both dri­vers are dead and oth­ers injured. Inno­cent peo­ple just going about their day. It could have been me. It could have been you. Yes, I have dri­ven and talked on the cell phone and am alarmed when I real­ize I don’t know how I got from point A to point B as I don’t remem­ber pass­ing the land­marks. I don’t remem­ber if the light was green or red. I always hope ingrained info will make me stop. I am no longer call­ing on my cell phone in the car unless I am a pas­sen­ger. LIVES ARE OVER PEOPLE because some­one thought they had to be on the phone. Tex­ting is the worse as you absolutely have to take your eyes off the road. This is insane. There are already enough prob­lems with dri­vers on the road with­out adding this. Long before cell phones and tex­ting we man­aged to live our lives and get where we needed to go with­out a prob­lem. PUT DOWN THE DAMN PHONES WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING. If I die, inno­cently, because some­one was not pay­ing atten­tion while dri­ving and using a cell phone, I will know this, and I will haunt peo­ple the rest of their lives. And don’t think I don’t mean it.