

| Subject: | Re: New York State Motor Smoker Law |
| From: | Joel Walker |
| Date: | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:49:55 -0500 |
From: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET> > On today's www.cnn.com > "A 1997 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that > talking on a phone while driving quadrupled the risk of an accident and was > almost as dangerous as being drunk behind the wheel. > According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics, cell > phones were a contributing factor in 57 fatal crashes in 1997, the last year > for which figures are available. " the one i saw also said that 65 percent of those wrecks (involving cell phone drivers/users) called for the police on their cell phone!!!! i've heard, but don't know for sure, that in the UK, it's against the law to use a cell phone in an automobile while moving .... unless you're in the rear seat and your chauffeur is driving. :) sounds like a sensible law to me ... you want to use the phone, pull over and stop. joel
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