Texting while walking a deadly activity? Perhaps for Maria Pestrikoff of Anchorage, Alaska who is still in the hospital a month an a half after she fell from a cliff wall while walking and sending a text.
Maria Pestrikoff, of Anchorage, suffered multiple injuries after she walked close to the steep drop to toss a cigarette butt while attempting to send a message and slipped on wet grass. She toppled over, landing on rocks near the incoming tide.
By the time the Kodiak Fire Department got to [Maria] Pestrikoff, the tide was coming in. Rescuers had to act quickly – she was only about 10 feet from the water’s edge.
“The incoming tide was a factor to consider with regard to expediting the patient’s lift and removal from the beach so as to not introduce cold water hypothermia as another factor influencing her injuries,” [Fire Chief Rome] Kamai said.
Pretty hard to believe…the pervasive cell phones are now causing us to fall form cliffs like lemmings! Read more about this rather interesting story on the Alaska Dispatch.
How about you? Have you ever walked into a pole while texting? Aimlessly walked into the street? Been pulled over for it? What’s your story?
