Sunday, January 17, 2010

Mobile Phone Accidents Increase, Don't Get Sent To The ER!

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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