San Diego selected as test city for CAL-TRANS anti-texting campaign

Selection made on basis of a single week's traffic reports!

Author

By Walter Mencken

Publish Date

Dec. 10, 2013

Cal-DOT's billboard mock-up, featuring, clockwise from upper left: Sheriff's Deputy car runs into woman crossing street in wheelchair, December 6, Encanto; BMW station wagon crashes into taco shop, North Park, December 6; Car floating in surf, Oceanside, December 4; truck crashes into condo, Banker's Hill, December 6; pickup truck smashes into multiple parked cars, Chula Vista, December 2; car smashes into multiple cars before bursting into flames, Pacific Beach, December 3.

DOT Head Don Dent: "We've already contracted with the estate of Paul Evans, whose 1959 hit 'Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)' contains the immortal chorus: 'Keep your mind on your driving/Keep your hands on the wheel/Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead.' We're not gonna change a thing."