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Nearly everyone is guilty of texting-while-driving, in at least some capacity. In order to combat this dangerous practice – 6,000 people died in 2008 due to distracted or inattentive drivers while more than 500,000 were injured – the NHTSA has prepared sample legislation for states to adopt what would authorize law enforcement officials to stop a vehicle and issue a citation to drivers who are observed texting while driving.<\/p>\n
Under the proposed guidelines, drivers who are caught texting while driving face a minimum fine of $75.00 and action against their driving privilege. In those instances where a death occurs, the texting driver could possibly face felony charges. 19 states plus the District of Columbia already have anti-texting measures in place, while seven have banned the use of handheld devices while driving all together.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n Regulators attribute the threat in texting while driving to the three-pronged distraction that is caused; visual, manual, and cognitive. NHTSA research also shows that the vast majority of texting-drivers are men and women under the age of 20; the least-experienced drivers.<\/p>\n The DOT offered their own guidance earlier this year in the form of a prohibition on texting while driving commercial vehicles, at the risk of civil or criminal penalties of up to $2,750.00. The federal government currently prohibits employees from texting while operating government-owned vehicles and equipment.<\/p>\n – By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n Source: CNN<\/a><\/p>\n Nearly everyone is guilty of texting-while-driving, in at least some capacity. In order to combat this dangerous practice – 6,000 people died in 2008 due to distracted or inattentive drivers while more than 500,000 were injured – the NHTSA has prepared sample legislation for states to adopt what would authorize law enforcement officials to stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351157","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=351157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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