Texting Student Nearly Dies In Car Crash

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21-year-old in Texas survived a horrific crash when he drove his truck off a cliff while texting. Strangely enough, shortly before plunging into a ravine, Chance Bothe had sent a text saying that he needed to stop texting while driving before something bad happened to him.

Bothe's accident is the second texting and driving accident to make news this week, as singer Peter Frampton was rear-ended by a woman who was texting while driving.

"I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident," is the text that Bothe sent shortly before the January 24 accident.

We're not sure why this story hasn't come out sooner, but we think that it's because Bothe was in rehab, recovering from his injuries. He broke almost every bone in his body during the crash, along with suffering brain injuries. He needed to be revived three times.

Now that he can speak out, he is.

"Don't do it. It's not worth losing your life," Bothe told the New York Daily News. "I went to my grandmother's funeral not long ago, and I kept thinking, it kept jumping into my head, I'm surprised that's not me up in that casket. I came very close to that, to being gone forever."

Bothe's accident is the second texting and driving accident to make news this week, as singer Peter Frampton was rear-ended by a woman who was texting while driving.

We can keep saying that texting while driving is dangerous until we're blue in the face, but too many folks are still ignoring that advice.

Maybe seeing Bothe's tacit acknowledgment of the error of his ways—and the resulting accident that occurred when he ignored his own advice—will get folks to change their ways. Perhaps at least Bothe will change his ways.

Sadly, we doubt that's the case, but we hope we're wrong.

[Sources: AOL Autos, NY Daily News]