Woman impaled texting

Woman impaled while texting and driving

Christina Jahnz says she was lucky. KUSA screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET

Most people think they can multitask safely, even when texting and driving.

After all, they've had years of practice with eating and driving, drinking and driving, and even shaking a fist at passing cyclists and driving.

One Colorado woman, however, says that just a moment of looking away to her phone while driving caused her serious injury.

Christina Jahnz told KUSA-TV that she was driving away from her daughter's middle school in Elizabeth, Colo. last Wednesday when she began to text a friend.

"I was running late for a business meeting, so I did a voice text. I looked down to make sure it was all right. The next thing I knew, I was looking up. There was white powder from the air bags deployed," she said.

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The air bags were the least of her problems. She had struck metal railing, which pierced her truck's light and entered her thigh and buttocks. The metal railing ended up embedded in her truck seat.

The hospital staff who treated Jahnz told her: "If it gone just a little bit the other way, I would have bled out."

Jahnz is expected to make a complete recovery, according to KUSA-TV.

Will people stop texting and driving only when they experience an accident? Or do we need some sort of technology to save us from ourselves?

Woman impaled in buttocks while texting and driving

Tuesday, September 02, 2014

DENVER, CO (KFSN) --

Many people know the dangers of texting while driving, but many do it anyway. A Colorado woman is lucky to be alive after she was in a serious accident while texting.

Busy mother Christina Jahnz was running late to a meeting after bringing her daughter's saxophone to her middle school, so she used her phone to send a quick text.

"The next thing I knew, I was looking up, there was white powder from the air bags deployed," she recalled.

Jahnz had slammed into a guardrail pole. It went through the front light of her truck piercing her in the buttocks and continuing through the seat behind her.

"They had to cut behind me because the pipe went through my seat," Jahnz said. "I could feel it the vibrations and stuff."

Firefighters were able to get Jahnz out of the car, and she was rushed to a hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery.

"I'm truly a miracle. They said if it gone just a little bit the other way, I would have bled out," Jahnz said. "Devastating knowing that I could have prevented it to begin with."

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Woman impaled through buttocks by pole while texting and driving

COLORADO (PIX11) – A Colorado woman got a grisly reminder why texting while driving is never OK.

Christina Jahnz said she was running late when she had to go to her daughter’s school to drop off her saxophone.

Jahnz said she looked down to send a voice text when she crashed her car. (Photo: KUSA via CNN)

“I was running late for a business meeting so I did a voice text,” Jahnz told KUSA. “I looked down to make sure it was all right. Next thing I knew, I was looking up. There was white powder from the air bags deployed.

Jahnz crashed her car into a guardrail pole. The pole went through the front of her truck and pierced her through the buttocks, then went through the driver’s seat.

First responders had to cut Jahnz out of the vehicle.

Jahnz underwent emergency surgery and is expected to recover.

“ I’m truly a miracle. They said if it gone just a little bit the other way I would have bled out,” Jahnz said from her hospital bed.