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Could you be sued for texting someone who's driving?

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    Woman in legal trouble after car crash

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Thank -- Jersey a real case in front of a judge in Jersey right now and here's the question.

-- this now should a person be held liable for sending a text message to a friend who has been driving a car.

If that driver then reads the text message and gets into a car crash.

Should the sender of the text message.

Be responsible.

They teenagers.

Lawyer representing the victims of a car crash say the sender of a text message should be held at least partially responsible because she was quote electronically president -- -- When the readers slammed into another -- That's like no not even going there a lawyer for the text sender.

Argues that his client had no way to know or control or predict when the recipient would read the message.

Let's get back to legal panel from the moment I fear or there.

Or I should say Randy.

Former prosecutor possibly glanced over a dollar on the left from -- -- -- -- on the right when I read this text message that you send me.

I can drive my two hours to clog and during that period I cannot read text as when I get to my home like and -- read my text messages.

Or I can answer them along the way impression to ten people.

Let's go to waste my decision and your responsibility.

New Jersey UH yeah that's the key -- your responsible.

You -- well the responsibility.

Those so response I have -- I'm -- what you're doing that's it how would you know the the future and I can't be in the bathroom break -- that the percent to eleven Acura which would be a fine time to read it except that's grows so.

I.

-- is because of the GPS abilities of these devices there will come a point in the not too distant future.

Where if these things are moving more than ten or fifteen miles per hour and they'll be able to know that.

That there will be some sort of prohibitions you getting talents are.

They will.

And the person who sleeps in the guest bedroom built for the intent and purpose of the government workers sleeping in my house like they will at your house.

Will be able to remind me of these rules when a wake up of a bit crazy.

Once again we see good intention and insane execution how many laws are we going to allow to be passed.

That are just can I say asinine -- data that I absolutely -- it is unbelievable.

Too suggestive for 12.

If I'm sending you would tax.

I know what you're doing and I know that your driving and somehow I should be responsible for what you do what you know what maybe I should become a psychic.

How could you ever in God's green earth prove intent -- sock puppets so are you ready let's look like that.

They don't miss shepherd is indebted to descended insurance policies I think that's correct that's -- -- our job that I got to get.

-- money in who's responsible.

Law -- Think -- all of a lot of personal injury and it's it's so often it was it was it was Florida and Texas that seem to keep the tabloid shows and I was in 11 of those tablets that they seem to keep the -- -- going.

And New Jersey and stir and it's it's even better.

Florida Texas and that's my sliver of greatness that is New Jersey just make New Jersey illegal that no one -- we need it come about if -- about -- -- -- cases someone sends me text message and I screw up the case you should not do that eight seconds before the heartbreak.

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