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: New York Injury Talk BlogTougher Texting While Driving Laws Proposed in New York
Since November, in New York State, there has been a secondary law in effect banning texting while driving. What this means is that police can only enforce this law when pulling you over for some other violation. A new law will now allow police officers to pull over drivers just for texting while driving. Currently, only New York State and Washington State have similar laws where texting while driving is a secondary offense.
This comes on the heels of various reports that show texting while driving is in fact negligent driving and can lead to serious personal injury or death. The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) reported that you increase your chances of being in an accident by 23 percent when you text. The number of fatalities from these crashes seems to be on the rise. It was only a few years ago that almost no one was texting and now 16 percent of all fatal accidents are caused by texting drivers.
Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).
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