Here at Serious Accidents, we outline and describe many of the top causes of car accidents, but this form of self-grooming is a new one even for us.
Keysnews.com has reported that an auto accident in Florida was caused by a distracted driver who was shaving her bikini line at the time of the car crash. There were no wrongful deaths reported from the accident and only a few minor injuries, this is not a situation to be taken lightly.
“My phone has been ringing off the hook all day, and I know there’s a funny side to this, but it’s also deadly serious,” Florida Trooper Gary Dunick said. “This is a scary road and a lot of bad wrecks are caused by dumb stuff like this.”
Our auto accident attorneys in San Diego couldn’t agree more. Every year there are thousands of car accidents caused by distracted drivers, who apparently believe that talking on a cell phone, switching songs on the radio, or doing personal grooming takes priority over paying attention to the road. This might be a unique situation, but the element of danger is universal and very real.
What’s particularly disturbing about this car accident is that 37-year-old Megan Barnes, the distracted driver, had her license suspended just one day earlier by an Upper Keys court for a drunk-driving conviction. Her 1995 Ford Thunderbird was illegally on the road, as was Barnes, and those two mistakes ended up leading to a much bigger miscalculation in judgment.
Around 11 a.m. on the morning of the accident, Barnes and her ex-husband Charles Judy were traveling in Barnes’ Thunderbird towards her current boyfriend’s location. In order to prepare for her new boyfriend, Barnes was shaving her bikini line while Judy held the wheel of the car. The ensuing rear-end car accident with David Schoff’s 2006 Chevrolet pickup truck injured two female passengers, who were transported to a nearby hospital.
It gets worse. Barnes and Judy traded seats after the car crash to make it look like Barnes had not been driving. Unfortunately for them, Barnes’ chest had burn marks from the airbag on the driver’s side, a dead-give away to police when they discovered the passenger’s side airbags had not been deployed.
Police impounded the Thunderbird and revoked Barnes’ driver’s license until 2015. When they eventually reissue her driver’s license she must have a Breathalyzer ignition interlock device on any vehicle she drives — exactly the kind of DUI prevention method our San Diego auto accident lawyers have been advocating for convicted drunk-drivers.
Driving is a privilege, but drunk drivers and distracted drivers are not capable of handling the responsibility.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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