
Turns out more and more pedestrians are admitted to the emergency room due to mobile phone related accidents than ever before!
Examples of such visits include a 16-year-old boy who walked into a telephone pole while texting and suffered a concussion; a 28-year-old man who tripped and fractured a finger on the hand gripping his cellphone; and a 68-year-old man who fell off the porch while talking on a cellphone, spraining a thumb and an ankle and causing dizziness.
Read more from the above quoted NY Times article
here.
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