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Texting Blamed in Crash That Kills 3 teens

Andrea Gómez, age 19, Liliana Nunes (18), and Carolina Urrutia(19), has died yesterday outside the discotheque “La Nina” because an irresponsibly driver crashed their car, because he was texting his mom.

Matías Gillo, age 18, was returning to his house after a party in Las Condes, at 3:00 am, when he received a message from his mother asking him where he was, the moment he decided to answer her, he said he didn’t realized he had a car beside, and he tried to change the lane crashing the with the three teenagers inside.

The three girls were starting the university; they were going to study Journalism, in the Universidad de los Andes.

The families of the victims are very pissed of with the responsible, and they are not happy with his sentence. He is now paying his punishment, and he has been taken of his driver license.

In the last years many accidents have been occurred because of the irresponsibility of the drivers. Here in Chile the statistics shows that 5 of every 10 deaths are because of car accidents.

Many campaigns here in Chile has tried to prevent this type of accidents, showing the consequences of driving under the alcohol influence, or because texting while driving. They hadn’t had any results. People are still driving irresponsibly, and acting like they don’t care about their lives.

Last week, a girl was crossing the street correctly, and a driver who was sending a text message to her girlfriend, hit her, causing her death.

“The last thing I wanted was killing her, I made a mistake and I’m conscious about that, and I regret it” said Tomás Hiller, who is now in provisional liberty.

In Wales, they have created an ad that shows a bunch of girl having a good time in a car, while the one who is driving, is at the same time sending a message using her cell phone. Because of that, she causes a terrible crash between lots of cars that ends up killing a lot of people.

That is a very good way to show people the terrible consequences of acting irresponsibly while you are driving, telling them they could end death or with severe damages. “I think that’s the only way for people to understand what are they risking while they’re driving, being aggressive with the images” said the main of Vitacura, who has now release a new campaign for his district.