Texting car driver causes accident; wipes out scooter rider

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Brooklyn Injury Lawyer)

The dangers of cell phone use while driving - either talking or texting - has been a topic of several of my previous blawgs. On December 21, 2009 I discussed the dangers of texting while walking. Texters tumbling down and hitting their faces and even tripping on sidewalks and walking into vehicular traffic.  Pretty dumb.　

Dumber still is dopey teen motorist Nechama Rothberger, age19, arrested for slamming her 2005 Toyota Camry into a scooter-riding deliveryman while texting on her cell phone in Brooklyn, police said today.

Nechama Rothberger was driving down Avenue P near East 17th Street around 11:45 p.m. when she slammed into Best China Restaurant deliveryman Tian Sheng Lin, age 53, who was riding a motorized scooter. Rothberger was distracted because she was texting.

Lin suffered severe head trauma and was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.

Police busted Rothberger and charged her with reckless driving. She also received a violation for using a mobile phone while driving. 　

Comment: If Lin was driving one of those new popular "electric bicycles" and without wearing a helmet, I don't have much sympathy for him having suffered head trauma in this accident. These scooter/bicycle thingys are a menace, driving the wrong way down streets - often without lights - or being operated on sidewalks. Not cool. Not safe.