Texting stats hard to get? Some are coming out, depends some on state laws and record keeping, when state made specific "text" law instead of "inattentive driving". Tickets issued are on source for stats, court and coroners for convictions involving cell phone use are another- and locally some people in past year have been sentanced for deaths in vehicle collisions with the texting or cell use law read into record or as part of extended sentance, Wisconsin DOT is tracking a lot of it now with Milwaukee county, Dane county on data base as seperate, most of rest of state lumped together. Figure from beginning of year was maybe a 20% involvement of cell phone- text or calls- on injuries or deaths with a minor problem of drugs and alcohal sometimes also involved- percentage split when added gets more than 100%- a cell using over the drunk limit that also fails controled substance or seperate MJ tox screen can get counted 3 or 4 categories. Judges are adding a year or 2 for each contributing factor - but some times concurrent time in but added supervision afterward and mandatory testing for all types noted--and no cell phones allowed awhile. Cell phone records at a specific time can be brought to court and have been- like the train wreck in California 4(?) years ago where engineer was on phone with kids interestd in trains clib memebers. I had a lady on cell back into me in a parking lot- she lost left rear 1/4 panel and most of bumper on car, my old Ford E250 had paint smear on slightly bent bumper end- and this was the hospital eye clinic parking lot. Road construction worker hit by a texter that didn"t merge left in time had a partial message about "Im coming to construction zone soon and---" read into court. Worker severly injured but survived, unlike police officer last year in another state that was stopped for a car breakdown in traffic lane, had on all lights flashing but was rearended and crunched against breakdown vehicle. Now you get the idea why police motorcycle riders dismount/mount from right instead of left side- it is the soulder side on highway instead of the traffic side, and Alabama used to say pull over to the left shoulder on divided highways for stops- officer and driver get out of vehicles farthest side from traffic and if stopped vehicle hit the people outside are partially protected by the parked vehicle from the main traffic. Was a article about soome tunnels where cell phone use impossible so the tight tunnels had lower rate of incidents than outsides- but the next 2 miles from tunnels had about 30% more incidents than than highway average- English Channel tunnel or New York City? Alpine tunnels? A proposal in California was for a cell phone blocker emmiter on a couple stretchs of high crash highways, didn"t get far but it was debated some and apparently was a copy of a couple existing munincipal ordered "dead zones" in other countries. SO, while some drunks are allowed on road with breathalyser equipped cars-- maybe a cell abuser car could be ordered with a static generator installed- can"t use cell phone with running engine, still have cell for emergency use when parked, engine stopped. FCC would have to OK it perhaps. Something to think about. RN
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