The inherent risks of texting while driving or walking: A report of a near calamity averted

Abstract

It is a relatively common thing to see young people texting on their phones while walking or even driving their cars along busy highways or in city traffic. Also common is seeing people active on their phones, talking, laughing and giving out instructions while driving along with one hand on the steering wheel. Also common is seeing people texting on their phones while walking on the roads. These activities usually distract these people of (from) possibly on-coming vehicles or persons or other objects along their ways. These distractions may result in human-human collisions, or worse human-vehicles accidents or even solo vehicular accidents where the driver veers off the road carelessly. This short report was that of a young resident doctor who narrowly escaped the loss of an eyeball due to a head injury sustained when he walked into the edge of an opened window while walking and texting.