Three days later I woke up out of a coma, just for my husband to tell me that Ryan wasn t going to make it, Lisa says, while fighting back tears. Lisa says that she was in such critical condition that she they wouldn t allow her to hold her son in the moments before his death. Not to say goodbye to my own baby that was hard. Now, Lisa is on a crusade to ban dialing and driving , as she calls it. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that talking on a cell phone while driving increases the risk for an accident by four hundred percent.
Experts say that it s especially dangerous for teenagers to talk on the phone while driving.
When I m dialing a number or something like that, I ve caught myself kind of drifting off, he says. Edgar uses the cell phone while driving, in spite of his mom s strict rules. Though Lisa Duffner thinks that cell phones are necessary, she doesn t have much patience for people that can t take the time to pull over and make the call. My biggest thing is just to pull over to make your phone call. Experts say that looking at a detailed phone bill is a way of checking up on kids phone usage.