Father killed Tommy-Boy: ' don't do it, stay away from your phone on your bike '

"If a drunk driver had hit my son, I had had that prefer that every night crying woke up," says Michael Kallepalli. "But the woman who killed my son, has no debt. Her life has changed tremendously. Her children, husband, friends, Grandma's, Grandpa's, everyone is still working on it. This is totally underexposed. It has impact on hundreds of people who still sit with tears in their eyes as they pass that spot. "

Like a deer out of the Woods Tommy-Boy was killed when he was scooped up by a motorist in Bussum. He rode a bike path that the provincial French Kampweg crossed. ' With his head probably with his holiday love he cycled from the forest to less than twelve hours later no longer among us. The female driver of the car has him like a deer out of the Woods see drive and could do nothing more ', writes a good friend of the boy, the day after his death in a column.

"That is why it is so important that something happens," said father Michael. "My goal is to get as many people as possible aware of the danger of phone usage on the bike and in traffic." There are no reliable figures of and what there is, is out of date. According to a survey from 2010 would be at 4 percent of bicycle accidents with injury using a cell phone have played a role.

Shot of dopamine "they are novice cyclists, which young people a year or twelve", says Michael. "Any message that they get on their phone, provides a shot of dopamine. It's like sex for adults. Exciting, those messages, they have to deal with him and read it. "

There must be what Michael is a campaign in schools and on tv. The phone must be on the bike. "No ' beeps ' anymore." Kallepalli criticises the existing app ' bicycle mode ': "I know of many children who have used this app. There are all kinds of gifts promised but the app is not successful. You have to be very much acts and get no points. That is why a lot of young people there again stopped. This does not work with 12-year-olds. "

Campaign "in terms of delivering on the campaign, everything is possible. We are working on a new app, education in schools. It has to be an awareness campaign. Not because it should, not because you must, but because it can. Your telephone recording on the bicycle is an outdated fact. "" After the death of my son, we have to say goodbye to him on his birthday with 600 people taken on the Moor. There were very many children at his school and sports clubs. I noticed there all that many children get it. No phone on the bike. My son's friends are now very different. "

Michael also still Rotgeschrokken still getting messages from people that they are working on. "They almost had someone on the hood with his phone was working." It happened it myself too and it was the worst time after the death of his son. "Two boys in Hilversum on their bike with the phone." He had almost hit them. He was terrified really rotten.

The busy life-threatening transition on the road where Tommy-boy was killed, has since been adapted. "There are wooden plates so that you are no longer just the road on a bicycle," said father Michael. "But it's very important for me to feel that I've done to accidents by phones in the future."

Michael asked this afternoon in the Hague with Second Room members attention to the problem. That had results right away, because Minister Schultz has announced that they are investigating whether a ban on the use of the mobile phone on the bicycle is possible.

By Editorial RTL News Photo: Michael Kallepalli