Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120731:08:55:00
Phone one step too far. he wasn't hurt, but he is just one example of how society's romance with smartphones is causing many to flirt with disaster. walking into walls. this woman plunged 20 feet into a sinkhole. in the past seven years, the number of injured, distracted walkers quadrupled. more than 1,150 were treated in the e.r. in 2011 alone. >> i think the danger is real. and this is a growing epidemic. >> reporter: the doctor says distracted pedestrians risk injuries in from head to toe, including facial fractures, eye injuries and blunt head trauma, nasal fractures, sprained ankles and f...