Can I drive and use my phone?
Hello everybody out there in social media Land. it’s your personal injury attorney Derek Bernstein here for another legal blast today I wanted to talk to you about something I’ve been seeing a lot on Facebook and Instagram and that is people taking videos up the road up things around them of things in the car while driving so as a personal injury attorney that right there in the event you get in a crash is going to come back to hurt you even if you weren’t using your phone that day you’ve got into a crash the defense counsel is going to try to bring it in to court to use against you that you have a pattern of using your phone so they’re going to use it to get discovery on your phone look through your file and show the jury that you like to mess around with your phone while you’re driving instead of paying attention so if you’re doing that you’re professional you’re taking videos you’re trying to do this you’re trying to be funny or you’re just trying to document your day I understand but you can’t do it so personal injury Derek Bernstein here selling you keep your phones away and have a good day and drive safe.