18-year-old Kaddu got behind the wheel to take over from her tired mother. According to the National Library of Medicine, six or seven hours of sleep pose a 30 per cent increase in the likelihood of a crash. Driving performance decreases drastically with four or five hours of sleep compared to well-rested individuals. Notably, drowsiness slows your reaction time to steer or brake suddenly.
Mother and daughter have come under scrutiny following a clip in which Desire Luzinda expressed gratitude for Michelle Kaddu's offer to let her rest. Luzinda was supposed to drive Kaddu to school but was too tired for the three-hour drive. Despite making the wise choice to not drive while exhausted, the safer option left netizens concerned.
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Lucky for the tired singer, Kaddu is able to drive so she only had to drive the car back home.
"Was so exhausted yet had to drive 3hrs to her school . She said ,’mama, just rest I will drive . ‘ she got us there safe and I had drive sleepy me back," she captioned the video.
However, in the video, Kaddu seems to be multitasking driving and checking her phone. This sparked concern about phone use on the road.
"Desire mukwano in Uganda we don't drive while using phones, you know how I too love you so keep safe with tchelle," said jemmy_babirye_najjemba.
"Lovely but you can't be driving and be using your phone at the same time...not safe...just saying," said namaralena.
"Please let her practice safe driving with two hands on the wheel.. a ring on that phone, and she is distracted. I young daughter that are driving also," said hoggardad.
"Grt job thou it's not recommended to drive while using phone 😢," said fionah_mirembe.
"Maama oyo mutugambile essimu assse ku side.. only 3 hrs journey and she can chat to whoever she wants.. mummy an answer the calls. Safety..eeehiii😢," said lut.joe.
Some people have pointed out that she was using Google Maps.
"Traffic officers in comment section what if she just wanted to check something and put the phone down I don’t think desire is stupid that she would let her daughter drive while chatting on phone 😏c," said alys_nabs.