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Phone companies and the “black box” in some vehicles both record the times at which events occur. When there’s an accident, the black box on a driver’s vehicle will save the data on the time period just preceding the wreck. If the time that a text was sent correlates closely with the time that the accident occurred, that evidence could help the accident victim obtain just compensation for their needless injuries from the wreck.
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Recent Studies Reveal that Texting while Driving is Responsible for many Serious and even Fatal Accidents. But Few Tickets are Written by Law Enforcement Officers for the Offense even though Laws exist Prohibiting the Crime. Why?
A recent article from November 8 at click2houston.com discusses the issue. KPRC’s Local 2 Investigates examined data from across Texas in jurisdictions that have passed laws against texting and driving or use of cell phones while driving. They found that El Paso is the only city that has completely forbidden the use of cell phones while driving.
Here’s the ticket score on texting while driving offenses:
What’s the Problem? Here’s Why It’s Difficult to enforce Laws against Texting while Driving
Not all Texas cities have such laws. And in those cities that do have them, the laws vary in what they allow and prohibit.
In most cities with such laws, officers have to catch drivers in the actual act of texting while driving, which can be difficult to see from outside the vehicle. It’s even harder to prove because most laws that forbid texting while driving allow drivers to be scrolling through their phone while driving. How do you prove the driver was actually texting and not just scrolling at the time the officer pulled him over?
The Solution
Law enforcement officers and safety advocates say that a statewide law prohibiting all handheld device use while driving would be easier to enforce. Until law enforcement officers have the capacity to enforce the law and impose real sanctions on violators, the behavior of texting while driving won’t diminish. And your safety will remain at risk from distracted drivers behind the wheel.