#driving while texting

'A love affair with safety'

Michigan's law against texting while driving has been largely unenforceable because it says nothing about emailing, reading emails/texts, shopping on line, FaceTiming, etc.

How's a cop to know?

Now the state House has passed a package of bills that would expand the law to include pretty much ALL hand-held phone activity while driving.

Hallelujah! It doesn't take a traffic engineer to see that cell phone use by people at the wheel is a proliferating danger to everybody on the road.

Yet, not everybody sees it as a problem. For example, Rep. John Reilly, as quoted by MLive, criticized the proposal as more intervention by the “big hand of government."

The number of drivers texting while behind the wheel would scare the faint of heart. The Georgia Department of Transportation finds that 82 percent of drivers between the ages of 18 and 24 have texted as they drive.

Is Your Cell Phone In The Driver’s Seat, Or Are You?

  On April 4, 2013, a Midwest city police sergeant from Midwest city, Oklahoma  stopped a vehicle to issue a  seatbelt violation. When he started to walk away from the vehicle he was almost hit by a 35 year old woman looking down to text on her cell phone. Sergeant Brad Rummell was able to scramble out of the way unharmed before being hit, but then the woman proceeded head on into his police…

Is Your Cell Phone In The Driver’s Seat, Or Are You?

  On April 4, 2013, a Midwest city police sergeant from Midwest city, Oklahoma  stopped a vehicle to issue a  seatbelt violation. When he started to walk away from the vehicle he was almost hit by a 35 year old woman looking down to text on her cell phone. Sergeant Brad Rummell was able to scramble out of the way unharmed before being hit, but then the woman proceeded head on into his police…

This ‘Don’t Text And Drive’ Ad From Volkswagen Shocked Movie-Goers (VIDEO)

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