On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Sue Cubic <[email protected]> wrote:
> The speed limit was 55 mph, but speed was not a factor based on interviews > with people who witnessed the crash, Molinari said. He also said drug > screening came back negative, but police haven't ruled out the possibility > that the trooper may have been using a cell phone or texting at the time of > the crash. Herein is part of the problem. When police issue reports that cell phone use may have played a role in a crash, it is usually not specified or even known what type of use that was. Tjhe public usually assumes it was someone talking on their phone. It could have been a conversation, but it could have been text messaging. It could have even been watching a video, or checking the stock reports on the internet, it could have been playing a game. It is just as likely to have been the use of any of that ever growing myriad of "apps." Point is, we just cannot have folks driving around doing all that stuff, sometimes multiple things at once, hands-free or not. It is very bad right now, and it is going to get very, very bad very soon unless our lawmakers take the problem seriously. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
