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Oh, this is awful: Investigators believe a driver was posting to Facebook seconds before she crashed and died. The wreck happened Thursday morning on Business 85 in High Point. Investigators say 32-year-old Courtney Ann Sanford crossed the median and crashed head-on into a truck. Later on Thursday, investigators say some of Sanford’s friends and family told them […]

Oh, this is awful:

Investigators believe a driver was posting to Facebook seconds before she crashed and died.

The wreck happened Thursday morning on Business 85 in High Point. Investigators say 32-year-old Courtney Ann Sanford crossed the median and crashed head-on into
a truck.

Later on Thursday, investigators say some of Sanford’s friends and family told them about a Facebook post that Sanford made around the same time as the crash. Investigators discovered the Facebook post was made seconds before the deadly crash.

“The Facebook text happened at 8:33. We got the call on the wreck at 8:34,” explains Lt. Chris Weisner, with the High Point Police Department.

Investigators say Sanford’s Facebook post read: “The Happy Song makes me so HAPPY.”

“In a matter of seconds, a life was over just so she could notify some friends that she was happy,” says Weisner.

Damn. Think about it: posting an inane Facebook update, and selfies, was so important to this poor woman that she didn’t care that she was supposed to be controlling a ton of metal hurtling down the highway in the opposite direction of other tons of metal.

I see this all the time on the road. Don’t you? Why is that car going 35 miles per hour in front of me, in the left-hand lane? The speed limit here is 70. Then you pass the stupid car, and there’s the driver texting away. It’s like dealing with drunk drivers. What is wrong with people?

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