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Title: Texting Drivers
Post by: rktmanfj on July 06, 2011, 10:07:43 AM

Indiana's ban on texting while driving went into effect on Friday...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43647493/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/ (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43647493/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/)

http://www.indystar.com/videonetwork/1039409491001&odyssey=mod (http://www.indystar.com/videonetwork/1039409491001&odyssey=mod)|

Watch yourselves out there!

Randy T
Indy


Title: Re: Texting Drivers
Post by: pdxfj on July 06, 2011, 12:34:15 PM
Won't make any difference.

Oregon requires a hands free headset and no texting while driving.  Every day I see many people driving around jabbering away on their phones held up to their ear.  Others holding their phones up to the steering wheel and tapping away at the keyboards while driving 70mph down the freeway.

The chances of getting caught are almost zero so no one pays any attention to the laws.
Title: Re: Texting Drivers
Post by: Travis398 on July 06, 2011, 02:43:21 PM
In our state it's legal unless you crash, then they throw the book at you.  :scratch_one-s_head:
Title: Re: Texting Drivers
Post by: andyb on July 06, 2011, 02:45:25 PM
Exactly.  So once you've been run over, at least the person who knocked you over will get a ticket.  Maybe.

Title: Re: Texting Drivers
Post by: Travis398 on July 06, 2011, 02:46:50 PM
lol
Title: Re: Texting Drivers
Post by: rktmanfj on July 06, 2011, 03:11:09 PM

That was the point... just a couple of days after the ban goes into effect, this texting fool drives over a median, across oncoming lanes, over the curb and lawn, into a medical supply store, and out the other side.

Now, they are going to make an example of him.      :good:

It won't stop 'em all...    :negative:

Video on the second link.

Randy T
Indy

Title: Re: Texting Drivers
Post by: fj11.5 on July 06, 2011, 04:49:46 PM
$50 fine for texting in aus, $150 for talking ,and they can check phone records to prove you had been, ppl still do it, along with reading ,doing makeup , eating , ect