Texting

Macy Winslow was a beautiful girl, a cheerleader, well-liked by her D.H. Conley High School classmates interviewed for her story in The Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.). Your all-American sweetheart. 

But her story, hurled across the front page of the local paper, is becoming less of a rarity than anyone should feel comfortable with. On Wednesday, she was killed when she swerved across the center line of a two-lane road, the aftereffects of an overcorrection started when her car ran onto the right shoulder of the road.

The full story is here at the Reflector’s Web site.

According to the article, the investigation was completed Thursday night. An analysis of her cell phone strongly suggested that Winslow was using her it when the accident occurred. And now it’s going around that she may have been text-messaging.

If this was an isolated incident, something I’d never imagined, I definitely wouldn’t be writing about it here. Few things in life are more tragic than a 16-year-old dying in such an unexpected, seemingly unjust fashion. There is nothing right about what happened Wednesday afternoon, and no reason for anyone to criticize her. Blogs have described similar girls as idiotic and stupid.

That’s just wrong.

What is also wrong, however, is people not learning from this.