A New Jersey court has ruled that sending text messages to a driver can potentially make the sender liable for injuries in a crash caused by the text-reading recipient.
A Garden State appellate court found that a remote texter like 17-year-old Shannon Colonna “has a duty not to text someone who is driving” if that remote texter knows the recipient “will view the text while driving,” reports the ABA Journal.
Will texting a driver soon become the new “texting while driving”?
New Jersey Texting Accident
Colonna’s case involved a car accident in September 2009, in which two victims were seriously hurt and lost their legs. The driver, Kyle Best, had received two text messages from Colonna when the accident occurred, reports ABA Journal.
A lower court had ruled that Colonna could not be held liable for the victims’ injuries, arguing that no duty could be imposed on her in that situation.
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