Please face forward and hold the handrail

[Hawk]

Hot enough to burn and/or cause an accident while driving if spilled.

Fact: temps above 109 degrees burns skins. The higher the temp the more severe.

Hot beverages in the hands of children while driving. Yea, that's smart.

OR maybe I don't care to ruffle through the abundant links you provide because it doesn't remove the fact that hot is hot. Anyone who purchases food from a drive thru is at risk of causing harm to themselves and/or others from spills of food or worse, hot beverages. And maybe I simply believe that drivers should focus on driving instead of eating, drinking hot beverages or removing the lids, texting or anything that diverts the attention from their driving. Family, friends or otherwise, I'd say the same. If common sense makes me callous, so be it.

Works for me. When they arrive to work, they can add the cream and sugar if desired.....NOT WHILE DRIVING. OR simply pull over, add, reattach lid, then continue.

I don't drink coffee.

Exactly, also not meant to be removing the lid while driving which is common sense. Therefore, fault of the driver and more so a passenger since they have no idea if a bump could be in the path.

Then people will complain about it not being hot enough.

Pull over, stop, add or Wait till you get to work. As stated, it's still hot enough, then add. Even a cold beverage spilled on the lap of a driver can cause harm if they get into an accident due to the spill. It's common logic.

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[Hawk]

No, she didn't. She didn't use common sense that placing a hot beverage between her legs and removing a lid, even as a passenger, has risks. Her clumsiness was her fault. I'm also skeptical of the son pulling over to let her add he condiments. OF course the attorney will advise not to say they were moving or case dismissed.

[invalid unparseable]

In courts here in Delaware if defendant is found against them blame is apportioned. You do not sue for a dollar value but essentially for damages. If it were determined that it was 90% her fault, as most here would agree, she might recover 10% of the damages.

[Ed Pawlowski]

New Orleans has daiquiri shops

[Ralph Mowery]

From my limited experence in NC traffic laws if even 1 percent of an accident is your fault, then it is up to each driver to fix their own car. Say you are going down the road and decide to turn in a drive way, there is a minimum distance where you are suppose to turn on the turn signal. If someone rams you from behind, it is still partly your fault if you did not signal atleast that far ahead of time.

[invalid unparseable]

All state courts have a somewhat different perspective.

Here, I found that if you get a traffic ticket for an accident if you just pay it and it gets to court you have no defense. I was advised to plead no contest and pay the ticket as if it does get to court you can bring up arguments in your defense to mitigate the damages if you lose.

On the national level we see it all the time where law firms shop the courts where they know they can get a favorable verdict.

[gfretwell]

Back in the sleeper?

[gfretwell]

It was a thing in So Md. You would go to a liquor store convenience store sort of place, order a fountain drink and a miniature of your booze of choice and the guy would offer to pour it in for you. Rum and Coke, out the window for $3 for that alcoholic on the go.

[gfretwell]

The managers I talked to said they served it that hot so it would still be drinkable when you got where you were going so you could sit down and enjoy your meal. Nobody in fast food wants to admit they are serving food drivers will be eating or drinking on the road. Too much liability.

[gfretwell]

It is best to take any accident related ticket to court. The cop generally did not see the offense and the only witness is the other driver. If they don't show, case dismissed. Tip, if both drivers got cited, postpone your court date, just in case he does show up for his ticket and it is scheduled the same day.

[rbowman]

Never got that bad. iirc in Moon's 'Blue Highways' he mentions driving across one of the boring states in the Midwest when he caught himself getting ready to go back in the van to make a snack.

Drive about 3,000 miles a week and your mind can get a little warped. The thing I found most distracting was audio books.

[rbowman]

That's the part the critics prefer to overlook. You brew coffee with 190 degree water but you don't set the warming plate to 190.

[rbowman]

The woman in question was not driving and the vehicle was not in motion. She was 79 with her grandson at the wheel. After getting the coffee he had pulled aside to let her add the cream and sugar.

[gfretwell]

I was a teamster (local 639) in DC for a summer but it was all around town, delivering chickens and beef. I did get to know some over the road guys in the Children's Band radio days. They do seem to be a different sort of person. I was working midnights and it seemed I was always talking to the same guys at about the same time, going around the beltway, most nights. They seemed to be making the same runs over and over. It sounded pretty boring to me but I guess they weren't standing at 20th and K with a hind quarter on their shoulder waiting for the light. ;-)

[rbowman]

Don't go down that road or the nannies will want to outlaw cup holders in vehicles and anything called a 'travel mug'.

[rbowman]

Sounds like Mexican traffic law. Whoever is still at the scene when the cops arrive is the party at fault.

[Scott Lurndal]

Isn't it better to man up and accept the consequences of your actions?

[Clare Snyder]

In some I have been in you could dring a THERMOS of coffee and get out to pee afterwards in sight of your starting point.

[Clare Snyder]

Like my brother told the cop who stopped him for talking on the CB going across Saskatchewan - "you really don't want me driving UNDISTRACTED across this boring province, do you??"

[Clare Snyder]

We've got drive-through beer store up here in Ontario - along with braille on drivethrough bank machines - - - -