Hang up your cell phone and focus on your driving

I'm writing this in protest of the mighty cell phone. Now I realize cell phones are very necessary to some and they have saved many lives, but get real.

About six months ago, we were driving into Coeur d'Alene when a red Jeep sped through the red light and we were just about T-boned. I was able to get out of his way. The driver was talking on his cell phone.

On Nov. 15, at 11 a.m. on Fifth Avenue, it almost happened again. Some lady driving a dark-colored SUV was too busy talking on her cell phone to look in her rear view mirror to see our car and would have hit our car broadside if I hadn't have been able to turn into the driveway at the Quality Inn parking lot. I did roll down my window and yelled at her to put her cell phone down but she just drove off with it in her ear, nodding her head up and down like a bobble head doll.

Could anyone tell me how we ever survived before we had cell phones?

KAY BERRY

Sandpoint