Chance Bothe waited a little too long to take his own advice.
The 21-year-old Texas native on Jan. 24 sent a prescient message to a friend.
“I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident,” he texted while driving. The next thing you know, Bothe drove his truck off a bridge down into a 35-feet-ravine.
The youth sustained brain injuries, and “nearly broke every bone in his body, including his cheekbones, neck and skull,” according to The Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/chance-bothe-text-crash_n_1735137.html
Bothe’s injuries were so bad that he was hospitalized for six months. He underwent rehabilitation for his traumatic brain injury (TBI), and had to be taught how to walk and talk again, The Huffington Post said. He also had many reconstructive surgeries.
The youth believes he survived so that he can warn others about the dangers of texting while driving, according to Yahoo! News. It reported that Texas doesn’t ban texting while driving, although it is barred in some towns and school zones in the Lone Star State.
Currently there are texting-while-driving prohibitions in 39 states and the District of Columbia.