Missouri Injury Lawyer Stephen Schultz has represented countless Missouri victims of negligent car and truck drivers.  Mr. Schultz has coined the phrase "texting and driving" for those drivers who write and read text messages on their cellphones while they are driving a car or tractor-trailer.  While Missouri has not officially made text-messaging illegal while behind the wheel, a sharp increase in texting-related automobile and tractor-trailer crashes may change the minds of lawmakers in Jefferson City.  Case in fact is the upcoming 6-month anniversary of the horrific tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 64/60 in St. Louis that killed 3 and seriously injured another 12.  Authorities have learned that the truck driver was distracted by his cellphone when he failed to notice the stopped traffic near Mason Road in West County.

It is fairly easy for us to become distracted while driving.  However, reading and writing a text message while driving at ANY speed is both dangerous and negligent.  Is any text message really worth risking your life?  I certainly think not.  No message is that critical that it cannot wait a few minutes until you arrive at your destination or pull over.  If you think another driver caused your car crash by using a cellphone, our Missouri injury lawyers will subpeona cellphone records to determine if text messages where sent or received near the time of the collision.  Call me personally to discuss your injury claim at (866) 840-3636 or (314) 448-0934.