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Audrey-Anne Dumont died last week after falling between two metro cars
evidently distracted while using her cell phone. Thomas Day joins us now from
the Monk Metro station. And Thomas Audrey-Anne's friends
gathered there this afternoon to remember her.
They did. About forty friends came here to the Monk Metro station. They
sang a couple songs, they held hands they hugged. There were a few tears shed but
uh... Audrey-Anne's friends tried to focus on the positive memories of her life she
died last week as you mentioned Deborah and her death has many people wondering
if we pay too close attention
to our smartphones.
Friends gathered, dressed in blue to remember Audrey-Anne,
the young woman they called did Beuber Bleu.
Her blue hair set her apart from the crowd but for friends especially
recall her smile. Audrey-Anne took the metro at Monk Station a week ago
apparently fiddling with her smartphone as she was about to board. She fell
between two metro cars and died. The coroner is treating the case as an accident.
In downtown Montreal it's common to see pedestrians pay little attention to
their surroundings as they text or make a phone call
but it seems they are learning. Nearly everyone we spotted looked up away from
their cell as they crossed the street.
It's common sense as you don't want to get hit by a car and
stay alive right? It's actually quite dangerous I tried to
only not look up when I am on a sidewalk
when people are generally just walking. When I cross the street I don't look at my phone,
I just cross.
and then i can resume looking at my phone when I get to the other side safely.
In certain US cities and states there's a push to ban texting and walking.
But nothing yet.
Here in Quebec the coroner and Urgences-sante both say they've never
before seen the death linked to walking with a cell phone in hand.