Girl Sues SnapChat Saying The Speed Filter Encouraged Her To Drive 113 MPH Straight Into Another Car

ATLANTA — A north Georgia family is suing the popular app Snapchat for negligence, claiming it encouraged a teenage driver to take a picture while going more than 100 miles per hour.

Christal McGee crashed along Tara Boulevard in southern Clayton County last September injuring herself, three passengers in her car and permanently injuring the driver of the other car, Wentworth Maynard.

“I’m like, ‘What are you doing? Slow down!” Heather McCarty said she told McGee moments before the crash when she noticed how fast they were traveling.

She says the teenage driver was holding her phone in her hand.

“I asked her, ‘Did that keep up with the speed of the car?’ And she said, ‘Yeah.’ She was trying to hit 100 miles an hour and post it on Snapchat,'” McCarty told Channel 2 investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer.

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This is the best part about technology – absolutely perfect scapegoat. Basically allows you do anything you want at any time and then just blame it on your phone or an app or something, get a petition going, get the internet on your side talking about the dangers of tech. Boom, next thing you know, nobody’s even talking about how you pulled your own phone out, stuck your foot on a gas pedal, and drove 113 miles per hour directly into some innocent guy so you could send a Story out to your 45 followers.

McCarty, who was 27 at the time, was getting a ride home from McGee, who was her co-worker.

McCarty had never used Snapchat, which can track your speed as you take a picture or video, and offers a filter to share it with friends.

She said the highest speed she saw on McGee’s phone was 113 mph, “I just remember screaming, ‘There’s a car!’”

McCarty doesn’t remember the crash, but she’s lived with the impact ever since.

The crash that did this to the other guy, who wasn’t on SnapChat.

Maynard, who was driving the car McGee rear-ended, will never be the same.

“He was in a coma, spent five weeks in intensive care. He has a brain injury that is permanent. His wife is having to take care of him,” said Todd Henningsen, one of Maynard’s attorneys.

Think he’s living with the impact too.

Can’t blame him for jumping into this lawsuit at least. Not gonna get $20 million from this dumbass girl that ruined your life, that’s for sure. Might as well take a shot at a $16 billion company.

PS,

Favorite part.

…They had never even seen a snap McGee posted of herself bleeding, moments after the crash; it reads, “Lucky to be alive.”

Survive a 113 MPH crash…get loaded into a gurney…Snap it. Would have used the puppy dog filter to make it a little more “fun” but that’s just me.