'It has stopped being an oddity when we hear that someone was texting and has a wreck,' an emergency physician tells MTV News.
By Mawuse Ziegbe
Dr. Frank Ryan
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images
In a case of multitasking gone horribly wrong, plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan was apparently sending out a tweet before his car fell off a cliff Monday. The surgeon, best known for performing several surgeries on "The Hills" starlet Heidi Montag, was apparently typing about his border collie before his Jeep Wrangler plummeted from Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway.
The accident demonstrates the very real danger of texting or tweeting while driving, an activity that has reportedly spiked in recent years.
"I hear, almost daily, accounts of people who are injured while texting," said Dr. Angela Gardner, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Gardner, who is also an assistant professor of emergency medicine at...
By Mawuse Ziegbe
Dr. Frank Ryan
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images
In a case of multitasking gone horribly wrong, plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan was apparently sending out a tweet before his car fell off a cliff Monday. The surgeon, best known for performing several surgeries on "The Hills" starlet Heidi Montag, was apparently typing about his border collie before his Jeep Wrangler plummeted from Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway.
The accident demonstrates the very real danger of texting or tweeting while driving, an activity that has reportedly spiked in recent years.
"I hear, almost daily, accounts of people who are injured while texting," said Dr. Angela Gardner, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Gardner, who is also an assistant professor of emergency medicine at...
- 8/18/2010
- MTV Music News
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