CHARLOTTE Veteran Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette remembers clearly the two-vehicle crash caused by a drunken driver that almost cost him his life and demolished a brand new police
some drastic measures. with details on all of this, here is abc s lisa stark. reporter: the board calls it a full-fledged crisis on the nation s roads. [ screams ] reporter: talking while driving. and even more dangerous, texting while driving. text and your eyes leave the road for an average of nearly 5 seconds. at 55 miles an hour you will have driven the length of a football field. essentially blind. shelly forney lost her 9-year-old to a distracted driver. she hit my daughter head on with her 5,000-pound suv. reporter: jaycee good, her parents. both my parents were dead instantly. i wasn t breathing. no one really expected that i would live past the first 36 hours. reporter: right now laws all over the map. texting while driving is banned in 35 states and washington, d.c. handheld cell phone use outlawed in ten states and d.c. but the ntsb wants a ban on the