Kids in the Car and Talking in the Cellphone = Octomom News

Recently, the 33-year old, unemployed mother of 14 children, Nadya Suleman, better known as Octomom got pulled over by La Habra policemen for talking on the cellphone while driving. Note: some of her kids were in the car at that time.

It is, but another page in Suleman’s contrived drama which is already booked to become a reality TV show. Just like her attempts to raise 14 children (all of whom were conceived through in vitro fertilization) single-handedly with no father and no job, with both of her parents being elderly senior citizens--kids in the car and a mother yakking away on her cellphone while driving is a car crash waiting to happen.

Driver inattention is the leading factor in most car crashes and according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), 80% of crashes and 65% of near-crashes involve some form of driver distraction.

And the top five culprits behind driver distraction are:

1. Cell phone use
2. Reaching for a moving object inside the vehicle
3. Looking at an object or event outside of the vehicle
4. Reading
5. Applying makeup

All drivers should take to heart what Octomom did—aside being blatantly dangerous, it also posed as a serious risk to her young children. Doubtless, there is no one in the world who would want to be as “mentally-challenged” as she is or be classified in the same level.

So here’s to hoping that a ticket would teach Octomom that driving and cellphone use is a bad, bad, bad idea.