I follow my maps a lot, on my cell phone

My younger brother was a drunk driver. Charged three times, convicted twice. Killed by a texting teenage driver (while sober). Karma is a bitch. I miss him, but we as a family could not get him to stop drinking and driving.

I read the stats you post but I can tell you that almost all of my near misses I've the past 5-10 years was because of somebody playing with a phone. I saw a girl come within a few feet of running a stop sign on 69S here in Tuscaloosa. Had she went another 10' I would've broadside her doing 65mph. There would've been nothing I could've done because of my speed and her direction. She just happend to look up and slam on breaks. Scared me worse than her because she didn't have a clue.

Loss of life

Drunk driving claims 29 lives per day, more than 10,000 per year.
Distracted driving claims 9 lives per day — approximately 3,500 per year.

I think a distracted driver is a little harder to prove than a drunk. You can blood test a drunk. You can pick up a phone and they may or may not have been texting. Could've been reading, looking at weather or maps. I don't think those stats you going by are as cut and dry as you think.

Don't overlook the drunk driver with a phone in his hands....

IDOT, I'd say you were very lucky, at least you were behind them and not in front of them!

I believe that the police do care...but there's not enough of the good guys to catch all of the complaints that are called in.

They aren't talking about it much, but texting and driving is why your car insurance keeps going up and up and up and up... In roundabout figures, distracted driving claims have increased 3X in the last 10 years. I agree with whoever it was above that said 2/3rds of the cars they pass are holding their phones in their lap and peeking down constantly.

There is one local LEO who parks in the same place and every time I drive by he's playing his phone at least he's not driving ....

Half the time they’re typing on those laptops

Oh no he's playing his phone ..we've talked
He parks by my kids school and I asked him one day why he didn't stop some.of.these people speeding by the school during child pick up when school is let out He flashed his screen at me and was playing candy crush ... Different generation of men

Having just buried a great young man yesterday that was like a son to me who was killed by a drunk driver on the wrong side of the road, I have to say it's left a really bad taste in my mouth. There's no reason for either drunk driving or distracted driving. I believe they both should carry the same sentences and or consequences. No need for someone to take a life by making stupid ass decision. I'm not saying that I haven't made bad choices in my past but by God's grace I didn't hurt someone or myself

This. It should be legal to shoot these sumbitches. The difference between drinking and driving and texting and driving is that the drunks are at least paying attention to the road.

You better not drive 3 mph over the limit drunk through reform or Gordo or yo arse goin to jail.

You can drive from exit 37 on I65 to exit 334 and never see a trooper. I’ve done it so many times it’s sad. Zero enforcement

What if instead of a HOV lane, we made a drunk lane? Put some bumpers on the sides of it like a bowling alley. If we gotta spend tax dollars efficiently, might as well do that instead of paying troopers to enforce it.

Need them auto driving cars to come online. Folks can get their drink on and text their ass off then.

They there. Plenty of them. Too many of them.
Just because you didn't see them don't mean they didn't see you.

Yea I can spot the unmarked ones pretty easy. I’m a 56-60k mike a year driver.