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60 Minutes: Oct 14

On 60 Minutes there are stories on texting while driving, babies switched at birth and Foreign Accent Syndrome.

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This Sunday on 60 Minutes there are stories on texting while driving, babies switched at birth and something called  Foreign Accent Syndrome.

Fatal Distraction
Most of us have done it at some time or other. And it’s as dangerous as it is crazy. Now, new research has found that texting while driving is far riskier than we ever thought. Start punching out a conversation on your phone and your chance of having an accident jumps enormously. You may as well be hurtling down the highway blindfolded. Yes, we know it’s hard to resist a beeping mobile, but this story should make every one of us think twice before we text behind the wheel because a few seconds of distraction is all it takes to shatter lives.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producers: Nick Greenaway, Hannah Boocock

Switched at Birth
Imagine making a decision – just one decision – that would haunt you for life and rip away everything you loved. Back in 1991, Sandy Dawkins and Megs Clinton Parker discovered that their two-year-old sons had been switched at birth, that they were each raising a child that was not biologically their own. They could have swapped the boys over then and there. But they didn’t. For the next two decades, we watched as Sandy and Megs tried to make their bizarre relationship work. But, perhaps inevitably, it all fell apart. Now, 23 years later, there’s been yet another and even more extraordinary twist in this bitter family saga.
Reporter: Peter Overton
Producer: Nick Greenaway

Trip of the Tongue
Imagine waking up one morning and not sounding like yourself, in fact sounding like someone from an entirely different country. Liam Bartlett has just spent a few fascinating days with three otherwise normal women who have the medical world completely stumped. One day they felt sick, the next they were jabbering away with thick foreign accents. One can now pass for Russian. Another has developed a French lilt. The third sounds Chinese. It’s called Foreign Accent Syndrome and it’s a condition that’s as rare as it is strange.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producers: Howard Sacre, Gareth Harvey

Sunday, October 14 at 7.30pm on Nine.

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  1. texting while driving has never been as terrifying since the introduction of touch screen phones.
    yes i could text while driving, in a conversation, whilst working with one hand, you name it. never looking at the phone. why ? because it had buttons that protruded out from the phone. i knew the keypad layout, how many times to press a button to get to the name, select it, n send the text, all while driving at 160 kmph and never once looking at the phone. i know the message got to the recipient, because she would always reply with….ok.
    i just wasnt willing to take my eyes off the road to see the word ok. a 2 letter word, a 2 second lapse, my eyes off the road, regardless of speed or conditions. thats all it takes. i now ignore my wife cold heartedly until i arrive at my destination, and i explained to her why when we bought me a new touch phone.

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