{"id":245759,"date":"2010-01-29T09:03:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/banning-cellphone-use-while-driving-doesnt-reduce-crashes-16064.html"},"modified":"2010-01-29T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:03:35","slug":"banning-cellphone-use-while-driving-doesn%c2%92t-reduce-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/245759","title":{"rendered":"Banning Cellphone Use While Driving Doesn\u0092t Reduce Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/banning-cellphone-use-while-driving-doesnt-reduce-crashes-16064-3.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>The Highway Loss Data Institute decided to bust another contemporary myth: banning cellphones use while driving does not reduce the number of accidents. The study was done by analyzing insurance claims for crash damage in 4 US jurisdictions before and after such bans.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;The laws aren&#8217;t reducing crashes, even though we know that such laws have reduced hand-held phone use, and several studies have established that phoning while driving increases crash risk,&quot; says Adrian Lund, president&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/banning-cellphone-use-while-driving-doesnt-reduce-crashes-16064.html\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Highway Loss Data Institute decided to bust another contemporary myth: banning cellphones use while driving does not reduce the number of accidents. The study was done by analyzing insurance claims for crash damage in 4 US jurisdictions before and after such bans. &quot;The laws aren&#8217;t reducing crashes, even though we know that such laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}