"Which Is Worse?"

Which is worse: Texting while driving or driving drunk?

That's a hard one to measure. Mainly because texting has only been around a few years. Obviously, anything that takes attention from the road is unsafe. No question there. But which is known for being a bigger killer?

America kills an average of 15, 000 people every year due to DWI. Texting? Hard to say. Unless there's a half written text timed at the exact moment of the crash, it's nearly impossible to tell.

This morning, I was reading on line about a young woman in California who was killed while texting while driving. She'd written a final text, but it hadn't been ssent out. Yet, the cops found her unsent text message on her phone's screen which was laying on the floorboards. Leads you to think her texting caused her death. And maybe it did!

But the headline was about how her fatality was from texting. Read the article and you'll learn she was drunk, too. So, which is a bigger story?

Americans are numb to DWI deaths. No biggie-until it happens to you or someone you love, right? But texting is such a new killer it makes bigger headlines. And that's just sad.

To take part in two separate activities that make driving so unsafe is simply stupid. No one deserves to die in a crash like this, but at some point, an individual has given up any right to complain if bad does, in fact, happen. There are only so many negative ingredients one can throw into the driving mix before it's almost certainly going to be an unsafe ride. In this case, I'm just thankful the girl in question didn't take out any other motorists.