Teen Imprisoned For Text-Messaging Death

A British teenager was sentenced to prison for causing a fatal accident by text-messaging on her cell phone while driving 70 mph on a rainy night. The Post Chronicle reports.

"Rachel Begg, 19, was sentenced to four years in prison for the death last year of Maureen Waites, 64, a grandmother who was driving to Newcastle airport to pick up a relative,

Begg, a bank worker who hoped to become an accountant, used her cell phone nine times in the 15 minutes before she rear-ended Waites' car, which spun out and hit a crash barrier, police said."

emily | 12:02 PM | Cell Phones while driving/flying/sailing |
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