Texting While Driving É A Carriage
- Topics: Weird Horse News
We all know that texting while driving your car is a dangerous habit and, in some places, against the law (as it is here in Kentucky). It’s scary to think about a driver taking his eyes off the wheel and losing at least 50% of his concentration while behind the wheel–you never know what might happen in a split second.
Going from texting while driving at 55 miles per hour to texting while driving at 5 miles per hour might be a dramatic shift É especially if the vehicle you’re driving at such a slow speed actually only has the horsepower of one–one horse pulling a carriage, that is.
Some Montreal carriage drivers are on the hot seat after a local news cameraman captured them in the act of using their cell phones while maneuvering through the city streets, according to News Canada.
The president of the local horsemen’s association is against ticketing carriage drivers for being on their phones while driving, insisting that it’s different than driving a car because, “the horse can see where it’s walking
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