Comments on: Oklahoma: Cell phone laws, legislation

By: sara

sara — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:10:48 +0000

I believe we should enforce the no texting or talking lwhile driving law to save lifes. It’s nonsense that a police has to see that a person is being a danger to other drivers while texting because sometimes it may be too late to stop them. I would say enforce the law now instead of waiting for something to happen and have another victim killed by a distracted driver.

By: Tulsa Attorney

Tulsa Attorney — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:21:27 +0000

I think an enforced ban on texting and driving is necessary to bring the dangers of this activity to more people’s attention. The data coming out this year has been quite shocking. I have to say though that, until all devices are speech recognition driven, it isn’t only cell phones that are the trigger for these accidents. GPS systems and car stereos aren’t completely innocent of contributing to drivers not paying attention. The problems may rise in whether or not an officers judgement was clear in determining just exactly what a driver was doing, even if they were moving their phone from their pocket to the their dashboard, one could easily be fined for not texting.

By: Belle

Belle — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:44:42 +0000

I want cell phone use while driving banned in Oklahoma, not hidden in an unenforceable distracted driving law. If I were not a very experienced, very defensive driver, I would be involved in an accident every day, caused by someone on their cell phone. I know this because at least once and usually several times a day, I have to swerve to avoid a head on by someone who crosses the center line, I have to slam on my brakes because someone cuts me off or I have to yield to someone who has no idea they just ran a stop sign or a red iight, and all of them are on their cell phone. People who are talking on their phone are NOT paying attention to traffic or traffic signals. They are injuring and killing people and driving up insurance costs. They are no less dangerous than those who drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

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Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:41:20 +0000

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By: Al Cinamon

Al Cinamon — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:42:28 +0000

Aaron, here is something for you to ponder. Every driver who was ever in a crash or died in a crash felt the same way you feel, just moments before the crash. They all felt they were safe and in control…and then in the next second they were dead or inured.

I’m sure you’ve heard all the excuses. “I didn’t see him.” “I don’t know where he came from.” “He came out of nowhere.” Well. let me tell you, he didn’t come out of “nowhere.” He came out of “somewhere” the driver wasn’t looking.because he was busy doing something other than paying FULL attention to driving.

You need to rethink your position. With your distracted driving (and don’t kid yourself, you are driving distracted) you are placing yourself and everyone else on the road with you in danger. Think about it.before something bad happens.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:45:08 +0000

Oh good god, i can’t believe all these comments. I thought people would be commenting about how silly this is. Okay some people get in accidents because of using their phone, so they should be banned? People are the problem here and I don’t want my right to use my phone in my car to be taken away just because some people are stupid. I text and drive and use my GPS and operate the music player and phone calling sometimes on my phone while driving. I have never once in my life caused a wreck. I would hate to be in fear next time I want to do these things and be afraid of some police officer pulling me over, giving me a ticket, and trying to intimidate me and the whole bit when I am perfectly safe.

By: BillyRay

BillyRay — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:08:07 +0000

I am 100% in full support of any law that will prohibit the use of a cell phone while driving. They have to many devices out there that are available to use that are connected to cells that make you hands free and able to pay attention to the road.

I am a truck driver myself and in a family of truck drivers. I refuse to use my cell unless I have my Bluetooth headpiece on and even then I am very picky about how long I talk on it. I can say from experience that distracted driving due to use of cell can and will kill. I lost a son to it

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:28:50 +0000

I really think that while you are driving a car you should not be talking on a phone unless you use a bluetooth device. Taking your hands from the wheel to pick up and talk on a phone distracts you from what you task is which is to drive your car. We have way too many people using phones to talk or text while driving and not paying attention to driving their vehicles.

I think that they need to make the law stiff to those who use cell phones while driving. In the matter of truck drivers I really believe that they should be able to use the phone while driving and should they get in a accident and it is proven that the use of a cell phone by the truck driver was the cause then fines should be stiff and points against their license.

Truck drivers are saftey consenious and they watch everything its the 4-wheelers that don’t pay attention and think that an 18-wheeler can stop on a dime and they take a lot of chances with big trucks, my husband is a truck driver and I have gone on the road with him on occasion and the cars take a lot of chances and they are the ones that cause most accidents that truck drivers get into.

So let’s make it a severe penalty for drivers of car talking or texting on the phone and make it so that repeat offenders lose their license should they get three cell phone related tickets.

By: Cee

Cee — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:15:58 +0000

I hope they pass a law for no hand held cell phone use. It’s just dangerous. A friends’ daughter was hit twice by people who were on the cell phone. This current law will be ineffective.

By: Dane

Dane — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:29:15 +0000

I ride a motorcycle. I live in Idabel, Oklahoma and several time have almost been hit by someone distracted because of they’re using a cell phone while texting or talking. Idabel is a town with a population around 9,000. The number of people that can be seen on any given day talking or texting on their cell phones is unbelievable. I hope I or anyone else don’t becomes another statistic before a law is enforced.