Driver Texting Now an Issue in Back Seat [Telecom]

DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION

Driver Texting Now an Issue in Back Seat

By MATT RICHTEL September 9, 2009

After decades of marriage, Terry and Debbie Buchen learned to work through various marital issues. Then something new came between them

- his cellphone.

Mr. Buchen, 62, couldn't put it down while driving. The first time he sent e-mail messages from behind the wheel, he drove his BMW S.U.V. into a ditch on a deserted stretch of road.

He was alone and driving slowly, and he wasn't injured. Still, the incident was "very scary," his wife said.

Mr. Buchen knew he had a to make a choice between his habit and marital bliss.

"I chose my wife," he said. But then Mr. Buchen, an agronomist for golf courses, asked for a compromise: he asked her to drive when they were together so he could stay connected with clients. That didn't fly. "If looks could kill," he said.

For all the conversations about distracted driving playing out in statehouses and on talk shows, the most heated discussions, and the ones with the most lasting impact, may be happening between family members and friends.

Such disputes are an extension of a longstanding source of tension - sometimes light, other times more antagonistic - between drivers and their self-appointed watchdogs.

It's just that now, the back-seat driver is going after the BlackBerry.

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