Some of the most fatal car accidents in history were caused by drivers using cell phones while driving. While several laws have already been passed to prohibit the use of cell phones among drivers, there are still irresponsible ones who insist on text messaging and making calls while driving on the road. Here is a list of ten of the most fatal mobile phone accidents while driving:

10. Jacy Good Lost Her Parents After Graduation

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Jacy Good and her parents had just attended her graduation ceremony in college when an accident involving the use of mobile phone while driving took away the lives of her mom and dad. Right after her graduation, Jacy Good and her parents were already on their way home when a distracted driver hit their car. After the investigation, it was found out that the driver of the car that had hit theirs was actually using his mobile phone when the accident took place. The accident led to the death of Jacy Good’s parents. Since then, she dedicated her life to working on passing laws against the use of cell phone while driving.

9. Wife Saw Her Child and Husband Die in a Crash

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This is one of the mobile phone accidents in cars, wherein a mother living in Abu Dhabi was driving a car with one of her children while her husband was aboard a separate car with their baby. The family was then planning to head back home to eat dinner together. While the husband and wife were driving, the wife noticed that her husband was talking to somebody over the phone. After a few seconds, the husband got distracted while trying to end the call and got caught in a grave car accident that killed both himself and his baby.

8. Children Died in Colorado

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Colorado is one of the countries where accidents and deaths involving the use of cell phone while driving are very rampant. In just a span of three months, two different cell phone-related car accidents took away the lives of two nine-year-old children. In one case, a car with three boys in it was hit by a car whose driver was using a cell phone while driving. One of the three boys died. In another case, a nine-year-old girl who was leisurely riding her bike got hit by another distracted driver. She also died. The mobile phone accidents statistics in Colorado has increased greatly.

7. Walking Fifteen-year-old Girl Got Hit, Died and Was Left by the Culprit

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Two girls were walking along a street when a driver who was trying to plug in his cell phone while he was driving hit them. Both girls were fifteen years old and were just pathetically left by the driver who had plowed his car right into them. One of the two girls instantly died while the other survived. It was believed that the driver who had hit them had panicked the moment he saw what he did and found no other choice but to leave the scene of the crime, including his two victims. The mobile phone accident photos of these girls are really heartbreaking.

6. Five Cheerleaders Got Hit and Died After High School Graduation

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Sometime in 2007, one of the most fatal mobile phone accidents involving the use of cell phone while driving took place in Western New York. After gracing their high school graduation, five cheerleaders rode a car and were on their way to celebrating their achievement when the car they were in was hit by a driver who was text messaging while driving on the road. The small car that carried the five girls was reduced to rubble by the tractor trailer that the distracted driver was driving. All the five girls died in the accident.

5. Driver Denied Killing a Woman While Driving Using his Mobile Phone

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In year 2000, a lorry driver killed a woman and denied the crime, blaming the accident on his bouts of depression and anxiety. The driver was driving his lorry while using his cell phone when he hit a smaller car with a woman in it. During the investigation, he said he got distracted while entering a new contact into his phone so his truck hit the car that was in full stop. The truck rolled right onto the car, crushed the female driver to death and even caused the car to light on fire, damaging over a dozen other vehicles in the area that can be seen in majority of the mobile phone accident photos taken in the location itself.

4. Woman Got Killed By Another Woman who Was Driving at 70mph While Using Her Phone

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In the United Kingdom, a woman killed another woman while she was sending over twenty text messages while driving at 70 mph. Her car slammed into the car of the other woman who was stranded in the street due to a flat tire. This was just one of the mobile phone accidents in cars in history that involved distracted drivers who accidentally killed drivers of cars in full stop.

3. Man Got Run Over By His Own Car

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A man in Austria was already driving his car when he realized that he left his cell phone at home. He exited his car and ran back to his home to get his mobile phone. When he came back, he noticed that his car was already rolling down the driveway where he had left it running. He tried to stop the car by throwing himself at it, but his strength was not enough to stop the car so he ended up being run over by it. He did not die, but the accident resulted in a series of broken limbs. Good thing he already had his mobile phone to make calls and ask for help. This is one of the careless mobile phone accidents statistics.

2.  Lord Ahmed Killed a Man While Sending Multiple Messages

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Known as the first Muslim life peer for the United Kingdom, Lord Ahmed was incarcerated after he got involved in fatal mobile phone accidents at work involving the use of two mobile phones while driving. In the first case, he hit a car that was driven by a drunk driver. In the second case, he hit and killed a man while he was sending multiple messages while driving right just a few moments after the first accident he got into.

1. Train Crashed After One of its Engineers Got Distracted by the Use of Cell Phone

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One of the most horrific train crashes occurred in the United States in September 2008. Though several factors contributed to the accident, text messaging was labeled as one of the major reasons why the train crashed. The engineer who was in charge of stopping the train at a signal was busy text messaging and making calls when the accident occurred. This took away lives of 25 people. Imagine the results seen in majority of the mobile phone accident photos after the accident.