Nashville Automobile Accident Lawyer Points To The Trend Of Banning All Cell Phone Use While Driving
As an experienced and dedicated Nashville automobile accident attorney, I try to keep my readers up-to-date on the newest information on driving safety. As I’ve mentioned before on several occasions studies shoe that talking on a cell phone, whether hand-held or hands-free makes a driver as impaired as if they had a blood alcohol level of .04. There is a definite trend toward banning cell phone use while driving. The use of all cell phones while driving a school bus is prohibited in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The use of all cell phones by novice drivers is restricted in 28 states and the District of Columbia.
A jurisdiction-wide ban on driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone is in place in 9 states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and the District of Columbia. Utah has named the offense careless driving. Under the Utah law, no one commits an offense when speaking on a cell phone unless they are also committing some other moving violation other than speeding.
Local jurisdictions may or may not need specific state statutory authority to ban cell phones. Localities that have enacted restrictions on cell phone use include: Oahu, HI; Chicago, IL; Brookline, MA; Detroit, MI; Santa Fe, NM; Brooklyn, North Olmstead, and Walton Hills, OH; Conshohocken, Lebanon, and West Conshohocken, PA; Waupaca County, WI; and Cheyenne, WY.
Text messaging is banned for all drivers in 30 states and the District of Columbia. In addition, novice drivers are banned from texting in 8 states (Alabama, Indiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia) and school bus drivers are banned from text messaging in 2 states (Oklahoma, and Texas).
For more information about this and many other driver safety issues contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates.
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