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Utah scientific: Cell-phone driving risks affirmed
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Like so many others, we have seen far too many people who are on cell phones and not aware of the problems they are causing. And once people have been used to using a phone while driving, they are very opposed to giving it up!
The sooner a law is passed, the better.
Utah people PLEASE do not use your cell phone while you are driving, without cell phone you are the worsed drivers in US, with cell phone doesnt make any better!!!
Wwhile, I prefer fewer laws as better, there are sadly times when such are necessary to replace "good sense" when good judgment is missing...we need to have a law in Utah that (1) prohibits cell phone use while driving (recognizing anyone can pull over and stop in an emergency); (2) provides high monetary and public service penalties for those who feel they are the exception and not subjecet to the law; and (3) provides for the revoking of a licese when one is on his or her cell phone while involved in or has cause an accident, and when a death results provides for standard "criminal" penalties...
How sad it should have to come down to this...all of which would be totally unnecessary is good people would just use common sense (which, sadly again, is seriously missing in our great state)...
THINGS NEED TO CHANGE.
What about eating while driving, or dealing with kids in the backseat while driving - let's ban those, too. In fact, let's outlaw anyone riding in the passenger seat and put a wall between the front seat and the passenger cabin like in cabs - that way there is nothing to distract the driver.
We should also pull out every radio in every car - every GPS device, even police scanners should be avoided. After all, lives are on the line here!
And BTW, cell phone use is banned on all Army installations, not just in Hawaii. The ban may be DoD wide actually.
It is only if people who have had something to drink demonstrate impairment that they are pulled over. The same goes for persons driving on cell phones - Driving while talking should not, in and of itself be banned, but, like drunk driving, it should be discouraged and punished when it affects driving.
In Utah, the law increases penalties if there is an infraction that includes using a cell phone. We could possibly beef that up more to cause more severe penalties for driving while talking, but to outlaw the practice as a whole seems a little too nanny-ish. After all, we're not California.
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