Laura's story - "I drove distracted and a man died"

Laura Maurer isn’t a victim of distracted driving. She was a perpetrator. Now she lives with the fact a 75-year-old husband, father, and grandfather is dead because she looked down at her phone while she was driving. The crash happened July 14, 2014, just outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, on Poweshiek County Road F-29 (Old Highway 6). Maurer, now 39, had pulled off the road to send a text to her daughter’s dance instructor. She pulled back onto the highway and traveled a few miles when her phone sounded that familiar “ding” for […]