images of al civil war marine and navy buttons

It’s not the first San Diego death attributed to “distracted walking.” In January 2014, a 15-year-old girl was using her cellphone when she walked into the path of a semi-truck in Otay Mesa. Lifeguards recovered the man’s body, but weren’t able to retrieve the device, which could have been a camera, but was likely his cellphone, said San Diego Lifeguard Bill Bender. The woman couldn’t find a parking spot, so she dropped off Burwell, who wanted to photograph the moment, police determined.īy the time she made it back, emergency vehicles were crowding the streets. When they arrived, however, the picturesque spot was packed. They decided to celebrate the holiday together by watching the sun set from Sunset Cliffs. Police pieced together that Burwell had met a woman at a coffee shop days before his death and that neither had plans for Christmas. Witnesses said Joshua Burwell, 33, who was visiting from Indiana, was looking at a device in his hands when he fell from the cliffs last week. Hilibrand said doctors across the nation have noticed an uptick in injuries related to distracted walking, and although most incidents bruise the ego more than the body, victims can be seriously injured or killed, Hilibrand said. About 1 in 5 people felt it was just as another modern danger, distracted driving. Of about 2,000 adults that participated in the survey, about 78 percent considered distracted walking a somewhat serious or very serious issue. That’s the bottom line,” said Alan Hilibrand, a spokesman for the group.

I’m guilty of this sort of behavior too, we all are, but we all have to change.

More people are starting to acknowledge the behavior is an issue - a serious issue, according to a December survey published by the American Academy of OrthopaedicSurgeons. According to the publication, distracted walking incidents accounted for more than 11,100 injuries between 20. Injuries have become so common that for the first time this year, the National Safety Council included distracted walking in its 2015 report on unintentional deaths and injuries.

Images of al civil war marine and navy buttons