Why so many accidents every week?

Well, I gave 1500 to be told my problem was that I couldn't control someone so I resorted to violence and that my belief system that a kid should respect his parent (especially his mother who single handedly raised him alone) and not say such a horrible thing as he did was wrong. Funny that if you posed the situation to 10 people, 8 of them would have done worse than a slap upside the head and highly agree that this is what is wrong with kids "these days". Lawyer said absolutely nothing mattered, all the jury would see were I to have spent the extra money to take it to court, was that I hit my kid regardless of how old he was.

 

And as I stated earlier, they can make it illegal all they want but unless they are pulling every single person over every time a phone is seen in use and slap a huge fine on the person and DO NOT allow it to be reduced in court, it does zero good. There isn't enough room on the sides of the road or enough policemen to keep up wth it.

 

Truckers fall under a whole new set of rules enforced under federal law. Texting and using a cellphone is a $2500 fine first offense, $5000 second offense. Hardly chump change and has made many think twice. Of course you have them defiant rebels that won't listen to anything. You have to cage them up!

 

So what do they do? Random stops or taking the phone while at the weigh station and seeing what kind of activity was on it in the past hour and so forth. NO ONE is going to stand for that and call BS and claim they were pulled over or any other number of excuses.

 

Running in the median or ditch could be an incident if you could get out on your own free will and no disabling damage. It still looks the same on a DAC, baddddddd!

 

Drivers have been asked before at weigh stations. Legality? Definitely in an accident with injuries they are going to confiscate one's phone.

Most drivers have gone hands free or pull over. One button pushing is allowed but no removing the seatbelt or altering the drivers normal seated position. Smart phones are allowed with dispatch communications.

 

lately, i have been dismayed at what drivers will stand for

so i dont see too many drivers objecting if DOT asks for their phone

 

Show me a warrant and ill Show my phone. Until then I'd advise them to issue a warrant to my cell phone provider. Won't happen unless they can show reasonable suspicion my supposed use of phone was a contributing factor to a wreck.or other incident. By this piunt I'd have a lawyer and already set him loose. But then they have to.prove I was nit hands free. My phone can call and text by voice with one button push on the head set and can read incoming text to me. Hard to prove I was not hands free. And no I do not text while driving. Too many years on an ambulance seeing what can happen in a wreck.

Sent from somewhere out there

 

This is a gray area right now and a precedent-setting ruling needs to take place. Just read an article recently where some police and DOT have indeed taken cell phones for inspection from drivers where an obvious law was broken, such as a driver being observed on a cell phone illegally while driving. By breaking the law one may be giving up their rights to have their cell phone inspected by a LEO so he/she can ascertain whether or not the driver was talking/texting illlegally while driving.

 

ezx1100 agree with not wanting a billion laws just one uniform law that says No texting while driving across all states. Just last weekend parents reported a school bus driver getting caught for texting a second time behind the wheel. But there are people who responded with "whats the big deal there weren't any children on the bus. Not sure which way should we lean, maybe there are carriers like Fed Ex and some local ltl companies that are teaching "proper texting techniques". Just sayin!