Date:         Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:49:55 -0500
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker@URONRAMP.NET>
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From:         Joel Walker <jwalker@URONRAMP.NET>
Subject:      Re: New York State Motor Smoker Law
Comments: To: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
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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