How can they prove she had a half-written text message? I have a bunch, it's called a "drafts" folder. Sometimes I'm drunk texting and not drunk enough to hit send or just decide to blow it off and type it out later... does that mean if I hit someone the cops will nail me for texting and driving?

I'm not saying she's not an idiot, I'm just wondering how rock solid the cops' case really is.

How long until our cars are equipped with cell phone kill switches?

"It was merely an accident." MERELY? Oh, what a relief to the dead victim's family!

no1 is entitled to a lcense. the privilige to drive comes from hard work and practice. drivers should take a mandatory test every few years. this grl is a retard

The drivers in this city are getting worse every year; as are the bikers and pedestrians...

http://www.bksouthie.com/2010/...

If you don’t have a phone on you after an accident, it is going to be hard for anyone to prove you were texting while driving.

If you don't have a phone on you, then you probably weren't using one, no?

You can still get the phone records to determine when the phone was used last...so whether you throw it out the window or whatever...the records will be all the proof they need.plus most phones have a GPS so they could also locate the phone....there is nothing private about a cell phone...so use with caution...

Wow.. .she really is one ugly duckling.

All the more reason to remember to either clear your phone’s memory, or get rid if it altogether after your involved in an accident. You may not remember that you checked your phone at the last traffic light.
Good luck Nechama.

You are wishing a murderer luck?

I wouldn't consider this girl a murderer, she is just stupid...people who talk and text while they drive are automatically a danger to themselves and everyone round them...

Yes, O.K. Stupid, ignorant of the law (of which I am sure she is aware),
and someone is dead. If she did not understand texting and driving has real endings she should not have been behind the wheel. Want me to go on?
Sorry to be trivial when a family has such a loss.

Too much practice at the gun range. Must have given you lead poisoning. The police and DA don't get evidence from the phone. They get it from the phone company. Just like email, records of all calls and messages remain on the company servers whether or not you delete them on your phone.

The cops in Brooklyn must be really good because the story seems to be that she was given a ticket for using a phone at the scene of the accident; and that a partially written text was found on her phone.
You don’t really think the cops traced her phone activity at the scene of the accident do you?

I wouldn't be surprised if she admitted to it while she was on scene

I suppose you are aware that NYPD can ticket you for just about anything, even on spurious grounds. We see such stories on a regular basis here. On the other hand, if there's so much as suspicion of cell use, such as a witness reporting seeing one in your possession, I'm sure prosecutors would quickly subpoena the phone records, so throwing it away or deleting everything won't do you any good.

good luck Nechama? wtf is wrong with you?

how bout good luck to the family of the man she killed?
good luck raising your children without a husband.
good luck growing up without a father.

She looks retarded. Lock her up.

Text messages don't retrieve themselves. And most phones don't read your text messages out loud to you. She was probably distracted by having a sms conversation.

I agree the girl isn’t attractive, and she dared to operate a motor vehicle (a Gothamist sin), but can someone tell me how in the hell does anyone know she was texting while driving? I don’t see anything that supports that. Nor do I see anyone say “allegedly texting.”
If she was texting AFTER the accident, wouldn’t it be logical she may have had a partial text in her phone when the cops arrived? How does that prove she was texting while driving?