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A Living Testimony: Words Can Kill; Put the Phone Down

Lawsuit Financial has written blog after blog on the dangers of texting and driving. If we haven’t been able to convince you yet, maybe this will. Wil Craig knows all too well the…

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Lawsuit Financial has written blog after blog on the dangers of texting and driving. If we haven’t been able to convince you yet, maybe this will.

Wil Craig knows all too well the devastating results of texting and driving. In January 2008, Craig was on his way to a movie with this girlfriend who was driving. Traveling nearly 120 mph, his girlfriend looked down read an incoming text, lost control, and slammed into a tree. She walked away without even a scratch; Will wasn’t so lucky. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, collapsed lung, and broken ribs. Doctors gave him a 4% chance of survival; he was in a coma for more than eight weeks.

Wil beat the odds; after enduring a long, painful rehabilitation; he relearned how to walk and talk, and regained his ability to speak. Will has been sharing his story to help stop texting and driving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5il2vTxfgc

His story captured the attention of AT&T; he is now part of their national campaign, “It Can Wait” The campaign launched yesterday, September 19th against texting and driving.

No text is worth risking your life. Take the "It Can Wait" Pledge.

Mark Bello has thirty-five years experience as a trial lawyer and thirteen years as an underwriter and situational analyst in the lawsuit funding industry. He is the owner and founder of Lawsuit Financial Corporation which helps provide legal finance cash flow solutions and consulting when necessities of life litigation funding is needed by a plaintiff involved in pending, personal injury, litigation. Bello is a Justice Pac member of the American Association for Justice, Sustaining and Justice Pac member of the Michigan Association for Justice, Member of Public Justice and Public Citizen, Business Associate of the Florida, Mississippi, Connecticut, Texas, and Tennessee Associations for Justice, and Consumers Attorneys of California, member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Michigan and the Injury Board.

Mark M. Bello

Mark M. Bello

Experienced attorney, lawsuit funding expert, certified civil mediator, and award-winning author of the Zachary Blake Legal Thriller Series.

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