Andre Yoskowitz
26 Sep 2010 22:37
The Goverrnors Highway Safety Association has endorsed a total ban on mobile phone usage while driving, making their decision after carefully analyzing the results of a study by the American Journal of Public Health.
AJPH's findings saw a 28 percent rise in "distracted driving fatalities" from 2005 to 2008.
Furthermore, the report showed 16,000 vehicle-related fatalities from 2001 until 2007 were caused by drivers texting at the wheel.
"It doesn't take a Ph.D. to know that cell phone use and driving is dangerous and that lives have been lost due to this practice," says Jonathan Adkins, a spokesman for the Association.
A few states, such as California, have already banned cell phone use whilst driving, voice and texting.
The Association is a group of state highway safety officials from across the US. The group has helped shape many past transportation safety policies in the past.