Unnecessarily graphic

I don't think that those graphics are unnecessarily. I have seen teens text messaging everywhere... People are visual, images can speak more than thousand words.

Most people know that talking on a cell phone and driving are not a good match, texting is just so much worse then that. But I do not think they have to present a horror show to get the point across, stricter laws, bigger fines, could be just as effective. Go ahead and show the results, but I do not think they have to go to the degree you are talking to get that point across. Katherine I hate things like that myself. I am sorry you had to veiw it. Yuk!

I'm with you here, I don't think they should use these kind of pictures. My cousin forwarded me also an email full of pictures about a girl who was happy and had lots of fun and then had an accident. The "after accident" pictures were unwatchable. I'm starting to think that people who make these emails only love the horror for the horror sake.

oh my! really, I just can't stand seeing such a graphic like that. it will really deliver the message but it is just harsh. sometimes I also got some warning forwarded from a friend with such pictures, I had pretty felt sickened seeing the way they showed it, and I haven't even gotten such graphic you mentioned so I understand how you feel. it is just not a proper way to use these things to deliver the warning message.

I think it is horrendous that anyone should be texting as they drive. If it takes a few nasty photographs to make them stop I think it is justified. It is against the law where I live to use a cell phone whilst driving, unless you have it on hands-free, but even then I think it is dangerous and many drivers ignore the law and continue to hold their phone to their ear as they drive. Texting is many time worse and more dangerous than talking on a phone.

I must admit that I am very careful what I forward on to my friends and I do tell them most explicitly if they have forwarded something inappropriate. Like you I can't stand to see anything too violent or graphic, as I will be dreaming of it every night and then dwelling on it during the day. I have worked with people like that who laughed at seeing Thai boxes fighting and breaking a limb - it was shown on video. I threatend to spill the beans to our HR section if they forwarded such material to me. What is one persons laugh is another persons nightmare. I really feel for you. How awful. I hope you have now got over it (it was sent to you a week ago now)!

Yes, apparently, it is. I've nearly been run over by too bloody many ignorant RAZR-wielding drivers in the past six months (Hi, I walk or ride a bike or take a bus wherever I go), because the driver has their cellphone in their ear, a latte in the other hand, and they're trying to steer their honking huge SUV with their left knee. As much as people have received texts (Twitter subscribers may remember the Tips appended to short tweets that they've received: "Don't text and drive. We love you."), normal emails, newspaper articles, and other media that they have come across, all suggesting that, hooooly boats, try driving in your cars for once, without the phone in your ear... People inherently seem to ignore polite messages. It's been in my experiences that you have to offend someone to get their attention about something serious, so I hope to see that email circulating around in my neck of the woods soon. Maybe I won't have to practice my SUV dodging so much. Sorry if the email bothered you, and sorry if this post offends, but if it's had that much impact on one person, maybe it'll get across to some others.

No I think it's wrong. I have gotten lots of graphic emails too, forwards and those who are sending the forwards probably don't even take a good look at what they are sending to begin with. Powerful words will be more effective than graphic material.

Maybe you could email the aforementioned acquaintance and ask them to give some warning before sending that kind of thing. Maybe separate the pictures from the text with a big space and a statement that the pictures are very graphic and think carefully before scrolling down to look at them. Almost how people do spoiler alerts; a overly graphic picture alert. If the pictures bothered you, they most certainly bothered others too.

i think they are really not required. toady i have got a mail regarding israel and palestine. its full of gusty images. i may have nightmares. i think a message written in good language is enough to spread the message.

I think it's crazy that people even think they could text while driving, that is just plain stupid and obviously only thinking of themselves. If it means sending out graphic pictures like those ones just to get the message across then I'm all for it. I have heared so many sad stories on the news lately because of texting and talking on cell phones while driving, it's really heartbreaking.

Hard to say. I'm guilty of texting while driving, but I try to do it when it's safest...ie...stop light. There are so many distractions going on when one drives, why add to it? My friend is a fire/rescue volunteer and he can tell me some horific details of what he sees when he gets to the scene. Some things he won't tell me because it will give me nightmares.

Sometimes it takes a horrific image to actually send a message and make it a wake up call to someone. Some people would just disregard a message like "Don't Text While Driving" because some people can just say they can multi-task, but we know better. A lot of texting/calling accidents have already happened and it is real. Showing graphic images makes it real for some people, although I'd rather not see them.

I sort of do! People are so careless because they have an attitude of "nothing is going to hurt me. I am invincible." If more people got a real eye full of what could happen to them or others when they get behind the wheel of their potential murder machine, and do stuff like text and put nail polish on (yes...I saw a girl doing that one day), then maybe they will think twice about doing stuff behind the wheel that can wait until they arrive at their destination, or could have been done before they got into their car. It pisses me off when I see people doing stupid stuff in their cars that can wait a little while longer to do. I actually feel threatened by them because it feels like they are trying to kill me on the road. Yes! That sounds harsh but, one second too long and they can kill me. That is all it takes. I was in a very serious accident about 6 years ago because a man reached down to pick up his cell phone that had fallen on the floor of his car and he didn't see that the flatbead truck behind me, me - who was in a new beetle, and the pickup truck ahead of me had all slowed to a stop on the highway along with everyone else in front of us and all of the people next to us. He ran his van into the flatbed behind me, the flatbed hit me, I, in the smallest of the 4 cars involved in this accident, ran into the right corner of the pickup in front of me and I got knocked across traffic to the other side of the road. I was originally in the left hand lane and when I was pushed across traffic, I mean that I was pushed into the right lane and across it while traffic was still moving in that lane as well. If one person in that right lane had been texting and not keeping their eye on the road, they might have hit me and probably would have killed me. So, gory and disgusting or not, some people need to see that to get it through their heads that a car is for driving not for primping or typing text messages or anything else that takes your eyes off the road.

Well they certainly hit home the message of the dangers of using your phone whilst driving, but to use those graphic images which you'd probably only CHOOSE to see if sitting down to watch an x rated horror film, but to take you unawares like that I think it's pretty gruelling and macabre, I take it the commercials are late at night and not where children can view them? That's where I draw the line. If the commercials are working, they can obviously look at figures to see if the commercials are really hitting home and reducing accidents and deaths. Sometimes we need to have something like this to drum home the dangers of using your phone and driving.

i think no, for me you will be confused more, sending msg. good word it will be great than making you afraid, we dont know all people will understand, sometime they just afraid of everything so they will be come more worry for thier driving just thing bad will happen to them.

I guess you're ight in there. One picture could pretty well describe what it tells but several of it may present rather over already.

I worked in a Factory in the 1980's, and at the time there was a "wear your seatbelt" drive in effect. The Powers-that-be decided it would be good public relations to show a film on how the seat-belt prevents auto deaths and what the results could be if the belts are not worn. The Company paid their Employees to watch this 20 minute video. It was Bloody and Graphic and I remember one scene where a driver's body was partially hanging out of the open driver's door, and as the car coasted past a utility pole, his head was taken off. This video was very effective and I remember my fellow employees telling each other that they had the seatbelts in place on the way home that night. However the video backfired on the company! Quite a few women were so upset they took sick-leave after the viewing, and stayed home for several days after.

No I sure do not. when we read about these accidents we usually see some of that but to blatantly send graphics likethat is sick I think.Dont these people realize we are intelligent peoplewho can wellvisualize an accident but we sure do not need our noses rubbed in it. words should surely be enough. I worked for years as a nurses aid and then in later life in the library. I saw my share of mangled bodies and so on so I do not needanyone to remind me of the hazards of using a cellphone while driving or to shove graphic pictures in my face.

I guess some peeps are not being responsible. They don't respect other people's sensibilities. I also had a friend that I really scolded because he forwarded to me a picture that showed a road accident that was so bloody and gross. I haven't eaten corned beef or any meet product after having seen that. It took me weeks before that memory in my mind became less vivid. I really don't see why they enjoy seeing strong graphics or showing those.