By: Christine Souders
csouders@cbs4qc.com
One Davenport family is going to great lengths to send chills down people's spines, and sending a haunting message to stop drivers from texting while driving.
Stay Alive, Don't text and drive, and that's the message Christina Caldwell, and her family want to get across to people driving down their busy road. But let's just say how they're doing it, is a bit unconventional.
It's a extravagant scene of a deadly car accident is one way to get your attention. Christina Caldwell and her family spent 4 weeks working on a crash scene in their front yard, and she says they put out the decorations so that people stop and think before texting behind the wheel.
"You always see people texting and driving, and it's just a matter of time before one of those people end up in an accident, and I just hope it's not any of my family or somebody else's loved one."
Christina says in the past 7 years, she's seen several accidents like this right outside her home on Kimberly Road, because of drivers using their cell phones.
"There was a very bad accident where there were some people killed and I was at the scene shortly after it happened and it's something I'll never forget."
And with kids always running around her house, Christina says it's important for them to understand texting while driving is unsafe, and could even be deadly.
"I would hate for any of these kids that my children have grown up with to lose a life or cause someone else's life to be lost by texting and driving."
And the family would rather have drivers see the fake tombstones, before they end up with one of their own.
This is the second year the Caldwell's have sent a message with their Halloween decorations. Last year they focused on drunk driving.
