You know, I think back now, you know what? That was a poor choice by me. Yeah, but You know, I don't use the word stupid often and I'm not calling you stupid But I do think that for everybody who does that it's just really a stupid thing To think that you can take your eyes off the road and do that at the same time So I don't mean I'm not saying you're stupid. It just seems just illogical to me. So tell me why it never occurred to you Growing up going to high school going to drivers. Ed He's never taught to me how dangerous it was So in drivers Ed, they don't talk about it. Um, not when I went to school No, never never once did did I hear you know Reggie text and drive or you use your cell phone while driving This is how dangerous it is. This is the statistics behind it. I was never taught that. It's no excuse So what I did but How did you feel when you realized that you had killed two people? So terrible Here's something like that and something you never want to hear ever They never get easier How is this affected your life? This affects my life every day. It's Something that Never really for you myself for this poor choice that I made You know how trouble sleep in a night Drive down the road you see accidents on the side of the road and instantly that's the first thing I think of It's hard every day never gets easier But you can use your voice, you know, and I want to say to every single person who's watching you today and you are on your cell phone Driving for every single person Particularly who is texting You're looking at yourself in this chair when you look at Reggie because it could have been you It could have been you and you didn't mean to kill Those two men Had their own families and had their own lives and you know Leave behind people who are you know will struggle forever because they're not here You didn't mean to do it. You're a decent human being. You had your own dreams and goals. You you know, right? Yeah, yeah exactly. I mean like you said it happened to anyone and you never thought it could happen Yeah, yeah, exactly that you were maintaining some level of being able to watch the road and Yeah, of course, I mean of course I thought you know, I can do this I can handle this so You know things like this don't happen to people like me where I come from Just one second later Poor choice took two great men's lives Nothing I can do now Last fall Reggie spoke at a national summit in Washington DC about the dangers of distracted driving he also speaks at high schools and when you're talking to young students who are right now where you were At 19 when you killed those two men. What did they say? A lot of them think along the lines like I thought you know I Can do this some safe And I explained to him, you know, it's not safe absolutely not You know liquid. It's done to me liquid. It's done to these two families You don't want to put anyone through that. It's not worth it Well in the aftermath of the crash that took Keith and Jim's lives Utah and acted some of the toughest texting and driving laws in our country and Jackie you credit Reggie with help and get those laws passed so quickly. Yes, you do He went and spoke with the legislature and convinced the lawmakers to pass the law have you forgiven him? Yeah I you know I realized that he was truly sorry and he's You know, he's accepted his punishment and he's even gone above and beyond what was asked of him in some cases What was your punishment? Serve 30 days in jail Did community service was 30 days in jail enough? I don't know I know you're glad it was only 30 days, but now that you're out Really seriously was 30 days in jail enough? You know I think about those 30 days in jail when I Went through and how hard that was for me And I think about the two lives that are lost I don't know I don't know if it was enough Thank you for being honest and answering that question and I thank you for being here. Thank you. Thank you Jackie and Megan thank you also we'll be right back It was tough. I know AJ was Presence he was goofy and funny and Had an amazing smile It was December 3rd 2007 I was coming down The street after grocery shopping and there was an accident up ahead. I came up behind the accident and Saw that it was my son's car When I got to the hospital a doctor and nurse came in and he sat down He said we did all we can do we we couldn't save her son And it's I Mean it takes your breath away. It's like someone Punches you in a stomach and and all your air is gone AJ rolled through the stop sign at the entrance to our neighborhood and into the path of a garbage truck He was texting his girlfriend as Accident was 100% preventable We're not talking about statistics. We're talking about sons daughters mothers Husbands boyfriends brothers sisters aunts grandmothers It's my son wasn't just a number. He's not Just a statistic my son was AJ Larson And he met the world to me and a lot of other people and he's no longer here because of texting Well driving This viewer need to break this decorator never let us down Now Nate forkiss three kids a minivan one old day Are you what we need to bite of this? Where's your house this way? Then his first head to toe makeover she's got a day She was 61 years old she was a wife a mother a grandmother She was everybody's best friend Just a little over a year ago everything changed we all lost our hero The last day we ever saw my mom alive was on her birthday On September 3rd of 2008 a 20 year old driver ran a red light and he boned her car at about 45 to 50 miles an hour He immediately got out of the car and said that he was on the phone. He didn't see the light and You know the news reports at night the newspapers the next day said he was engrossed in a cell phone conversation When I saw the seat she was sitting in That was the hardest part for me Put your mother your wife your son your daughter your grandparents your friend in that seat that my mother was sitting in and you tell me is that phone call worth it So for most of us getting behind the wheel of a car is the most dangerous thing that we do all day if you're talking on the phone You're four times more likely to get into an accident if you text while you drive your eight times more likely So before your mother's accident, I hear that you were a big multitasker in the car. I was a real estate agent. Mm-hmm. My car was my office