Driver Chatting On Cellphone Drives Into River, Dies

On Saturday, according to The Chronicle, an Antioch woman "drove off a boat ramp and into the Sacramento River while she was talking on a cell phone with her daughter, asking for directions," and died. Kathleen Gomez Collier, 47, careened into a river near Isleton in Sacramento County. "Just before the call was cut off, Collier told her daughter that her car was filling up with water and to phone her insurance company." In related technology/Sacto news, a blogger from the area recently gave up her cellphone because ye olde print publication NYT told her to do so.