The day of Jacy Good's college graduation was supposed to be one of the best days of her life, spent with her loving family.
But when a driver received a phone call and crashed into her family's car — her parents were killed instantly. Jacy was given a 10 percent chance to live. Although she survived, Jacy suffered a permanent brain injury.
"He turned left through the red light. And as he did that, the 18-wheeler served to try and miss him, still clipped the front of his car but then slammed full force into our family's car," says Jacy.
The driver wasn't drunk driving. He wasn't texting while driving. He was distracted by the phone call from a hands-free device.
"I know whatever that young man was talking about on his phone was absolutely not more important than my parents' lives," said Good.
A study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has found that using voice-controlled systems can distract drivers long enough to drive a distance as far as three football fields without paying attention to the road.
"I don't have the brain cells that know how to move my wrists or my fingers or my ankle or my toes," Jacy said. "I'm lucky I can walk." She now advocates against distracted driving.
More than 3,100 people were killed and 424,000 injured due to distracted driving in 2013 alone.
All it took was one phone call, one uninformed man, to make a terrible decision that forever transformed the Good's lives.
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