In China, a brand-new driver had barely gotten his hands on his new license, literally, when he fell victim to the perils of distracted driving and sent his car off the side of a dock and into a river.
According to reports, a man only identified as “Mr. Zhang” had just left his driver’s test with his brand-new license and gotten into his car to officially drive home. He admitted later that he decided to check his texts, reading through all of the congratulatory messages he was getting—but ended up so focused on his phone that he drove right off the side of the road and into a canal.
