{"id":248493,"date":"2010-01-29T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=31961"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:23:05","slug":"study-finds-that-cell-phone-bans-dont-lower-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248493","title":{"rendered":"Study finds that cell phone bans don&#8217;t lower accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>According to Markham Heid of the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Highway Loss Data Institute examined insurance claim records in D.C., New York, Connecticut and California, as well as nearby areas lacking cell phone bans.<\/p>\n<p>The findings: Cell phone bans don&#8217;t lower crash rates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We looked at states that have had hand-held cell phone bans in place for the longest times,&#8221; said Russ Rader, a representative of the Highway Loss Data Institute, which is a research wing of the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. &#8220;We found that there was no change in the crash trends before compared to after the laws banning cell phone use were put in place.&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/Study_-Driver-cell-phone-bans-don_t-reduce-crashes-82988542.html\" >Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This data is not surprising, but it&#8217;s good to see such a headline in the news.&nbsp; Time for people to be honest about why cell phone bans are pushed so much: 1.)To enhance state revenues through handing out tickets and to build up the power of the state and 2.)To make nanny state proponents feel good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes According to Markham Heid of the Washington Examiner: The Highway Loss Data Institute examined insurance claim records in D.C., New York, Connecticut and California, as well as nearby areas lacking cell phone bans. The findings: Cell phone bans don&#8217;t lower crash rates. &#8220;We looked at states that have had hand-held cell phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248493","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\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}