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Articles tagged with: Teenagers and Hands Free
Coalition Supports Bill to Ban Teenage Texting While Driving
..rting efforts to win passage of a bill that would restrict cell phone texting while driving by teenagers. Led by State Senate Pro Tempore Billy Hewes, R-Gulfport, the coalition includes Senators Tom King, R-Petal, Sampson Jackson II, D-DeKalb, a more
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New Car-Ignition Key can Jam Mobile Phones
University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers (or anyone frankly) from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving. more
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Teen Drivers Often Ignore Bans on Using Cellphones and Texting
..ct their teenage drivers' cellphone use, though only 66 percent of teenagers reported such parental limits. About half of the teenagers surveyed after the law took effect admitted they had used their phones, if they had driven, on the day prior more
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States Tackle Texting Behind the Wheel
.. just teenagers. "Every year we see a couple states that have these total prohibition type of bills," said Matt Sundeen, transportation analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures. "Generally they don't make it very far."Cell phone use more
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Drivers on Cell Phones = Drunk Driving
..ose of elderly drivers.The University of Utah psychologists conducted the alcohol study because a 1997 study by other researchers evaluated the cell phone records of 699 people involved in motor vehicle accidents and found one-fourth of them had used more
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