National Safety Council Wants to Ban Talking on Cell Phones While Driving
Driving around Jacksonville, Florida, it really is amazing how many people are driving while talking on their cell phones, sending or reading a text message or otherwise focusing on a mobile phone or messaging device. As personal injury and wrongful death lawyers, when we represent a client who has been injured in an auto or truck accident or had a family member killed in an accident, we always look for evidence that the at-fault driver was on his/her phone or text messaging device at the time of the accident as this is evidence that the driver was negligent in causing the crash and corresponding injuries or death.
However, the National Safety Council (NSC) is asking legislators to completely ban cell phone use while driving. The NSC points to studies that conclude that driving while talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as drunk driving and increases the likelihood of causing an accident by 400%. The study, conducted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis , found that approximately 2,600 deaths and 12,000 injuries resulted from accidents caused by someone using a cell phone annually.
