Cellphone distraction may have led to death of Toronto pedestrian: police
Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 10:43
in Psychology & Sociology
A woman may have been distracted by talking on her cellphone when she walked into the side of a truck and was crushed to death under its wheels on Front Street in downtown Toronto on Wednesday night, police said.
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