Joel Talkoff is an experienced driver, but sending a text message from behind the wheel proved too much for the 17-year-old Gateway High School senior Tuesday.
“It was challenging,” he said. “I was able to get the message out, but then I hit the biker.”
Freshman William Pitts, 15, also ran into trouble.
“A dog jumped out at me and I killed it,” he said. “I was focusing on texting, and it was kind of hard at the same time.”
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