N.C. Highway Patrol troopers trying to educate East Rowan students on the dangers of sending text messages while driving Thursday received an unexpected testimony from one of the school’s teachers.
Sean Rinehart, who is in his fourth year teaching English at East, said he was texting a message while approaching an intersection in Saginaw, Mich. on his 23rd birthday when he dropped his cell phone onto the passenger seat. He reached to grab the phone and when he looked up, Rinehart said, he was headed straight into a Chevy Silverado.
The impact flipped the Silverado over, and Rinehart said he thought the driver had been killed. “I thought my whole life was ruined,” he said. “I thought everything I had worked for in college ó I was on the track team and studying to be a teacher ó was just out the window.”
Read what happened and its impact on Reinhart in Friday’s Post.