Woman posts about ‘Happy’ song on Facebook seconds before fatal car crash.

[PoliticAverse]

HIGH POINT, N.C. — Investigators believe a driver was posting to Facebook seconds before she crashed and died.

The wreck happened Thursday morning on Business 85 in High Point. Investigators say 32-year-old Courtney Ann Sanford crossed the median and crashed head-on into a truck.

Later on Thursday, investigators say some of Sanford’s friends and family told them about a Facebook post that Sanford made around the same time as the crash. Investigators discovered the Facebook post was made seconds before the deadly crash.

The Facebook text happened at 8:33. We got the call on the wreck at 8:34,” explains Lt. Chris Weisner, with the High Point Police Department.

Text and video story: http://myfox8.com/2014/04/25/woman-posted-to-facebook-seconds-before-fatal-business-85-crash/

[Shandris]

1. Posting selfies and comments while driving.

There's a lot someone could say, but I'm simply struck at how incredibly...careless...people are. It's sad in a way, but at least it wasn't a car with a family in it that got crushed by her carelessness.

[In_The_Wind]

2. There really IS a reason texting while driving is against the law.

[lillypaddle]

3. WTH is wrong with people?

I don't get it, but maybe it's my age. Why on earth does someone feel the need to post online and play with their phone while driving? Crazy stupid.

[TransitJohn]

6. Let Louis C.K. explain

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. Hilarious commentary on a very serious subject. Loves me some Louis CK! Thanks! =) nt

[Generic Other]

13. Interesting observation

How hard it actually is to connect a person to the voice behind a keyboard.

[REP]

7. My car has hands-free Bluetooth built in and yet I rarely answer the phone when driving

And never when on the highway. I can't imagine trying to type and drive (even if reading in a moving vehicle didn't give me terrible motion sickness).

[marions ghost]

10. Part of it is that nobody wants to waste time...

and they get bored driving. It's now a world where one must be interacting with others every minute or something feels wrong.

IMO this comes from insecurity, not ego so much. The insecurity of the times.

Texting, posting and calling while driving is a psychological addiction. I think people need to be literally weaned off of it. Just calling them crazy is not going to deal with the underlying emotional pattern.

[lillypaddle]

11. But doesn't anyone THINK any more?

Driving is sometimes my best time to think & reflect. No radio. Or at home, no noise, no sounds other than the spring day and birds outside the open window - am I weird or something?

[marions ghost]

14. When you grow up

with everyone having to know what you're thinking a far amount of the time--I can see how you'd get addicted to posting while driving. And even on a busy highway, it seems people can't turn off the impulse.

Also when you start thinking & reflecting you think of things you need To Do--right now. People you need to touch base with...right now.

This woman was posting that she was happy.

Seems like that could have waited...

[JI7]

4. Lucky no innocent people died

To many cases of selfish people ending up killing others because of things like texting and being drunk

[maddezmom]

5. Yup.

Just read this to my daughter.

[3catwoman3]

9. I cannot even text...

while I am a passenger. Every little bump n the road causes a typo. I am not self-centered enough to think that my every trivia thought must be instantly communicated.

[B2G]

12. This is why I got Life360

So I don't have to call/text my kids when they're driving to find out where they are.

[pacalo]

15. Kicking for the evening readers.