Text Messages Sent on Phone of Driver Before Wreck

AP:

Text messages were sent back and forth on the cell phone of a 17-year-old driver moments before her sport-utility vehicle slammed head-on into a truck, killing her and four other recent high school graduates on June 28, the police said today.

A text message was sent from the phone of the S.U.V. driver, Bailey E. Goodman, at 10:05:02 p.m., according to Sheriff Philip C. Povero of Ontario County, adding that a friend here sent a text message to Ms. Goodman’s phone asking, “What are you doing?”

“The message was received on the cell phone at 10:06:29,” Sheriff Povero said.

A call reporting the accident to the authorities from a passenger in a car the S.U.V. had passed just before the crash was made at 10:07, according to The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

“The records indicate her phone was in use,” he said. “We will never be able to clearly state that she was the one doing the text messaging.”

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 15, 2007 12:00 AM
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