I mentioned in a recent post an ongoing case where Keisha Bianca Wall crushed an elderly pedestrian against a wall. It is said that she received a text immediately before the accident occurred.
In an update to the ongoing case, it is reported that:
A Jury will be asked to decide whether a young driver responded to a text message on her phone at the moment her car veered off the road and killed a 63-year-old woman.
The evidence given says that:
…Wall had been sent a text message – “If you can think of something to do, we will do it” – at 12.39.04pm.
The first 999 call to the ambulance service was timed at 12.40.06pm.
Mr Ward-Jackson said when the police seized Wall’s phone later it was clear the text had been read, but there was no way of knowing at what time that had happened.
British law is full of loopholes. Witnesses to the accident also gave evidence:
[witness Melanie Duggan] said: “She said something about a black car swerving. ‘Did you see the black car? It was driving in towards me’.”
She had also seen Wall using her mobile phone after the collision, she told the court.
Mrs Duggan’s sister Kay Grigg was a passenger in her BMW and she described what Wall said at the scene. She said: “She said numerous times ‘Did you see the black car, I need a witness. I swerved from the black car’.”
However, Wall’s evidence given in Court doesn’t mention the black car. The case continues.
And there is another story – this one from America – of an accident where texting has also been cited as the cause. Read some of the comments people have left against the story.