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The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
Driver distraction, a sub-category of inattention, has been estimated to be a contributing factor in 8% to 13% of all crashes. Of distraction-related crashes, cell phone use may range from 1.5 to 5% of contributing factors. [14] However, large unknowns in each category may increase the inaccuracy of these estimates.
Kids may no longer be allowed to whip out cellphones to type essays, operate calculators, make videos or text their parents from school starting this school year in some parts of the U.S.
In 2022, 3,308 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in the U.S. [4] In the United Kingdom, according to the latest Reported Road Casualties Great Britain (2022), 22 people were killed and 674 injured in road traffic collisions where a driver using a mobile phone was considered to be a contributory factor. [5]
Sources: Written school policies available online in 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school year student handbooks. This article originally appeared on The Daily Jeffersonian: Guernsey County schools have ...
A 2020 survey of 210 school principals, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found strong support for restricting student cell phone use in schools. More than 90% of ...
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