When my brother had his junior license he went to make a turn and the person behind him was on their phone and slammed into the car, totaling it. Once I was in the car, put my turn signal on and started slowing down with enough time so the driver behind me would know I was about to turn. I slowed down to wait for the oncomin traffic to turn and the woman behind me slammed on her brakes and her horn. I looked into my rear view mirror only to see her move her phone down from where she was holding it above the steering wheel.

So to the commenter above, Matthew B, the police should be targeting everyone for texting because it is not just us “damn kids” that are causing accidents. When I’m at work walking to my car I see about four people drive by me on their phones and don’t even stop at a stop sign. I have almost been hit a few times because of it. So is it really only the teens that are causing problems on the road? No. It is everyone who texts while drives.

The reason us teens get blamed for accidents is because the teen accident stories are the only ones that get put on the news, all the other adult accidents are not made public to make it look like it is texting while driving, but in fact just that teen drivers are bad drivers. Granted, some teens are reckless on the road, but not all of us are. … Look at the way you drive because I see adults on their phones while they drive more than I see teens. Thank You that this texting law is for EVERYONE and not just us teens.

As much having as more regulation is unsavory, common sense has been thrown out the window by a portion of drivers, who are already lacking in driving skills.

Early last year I was behind a young female driver on Rt11 who was obviously pre-occupied with something other than driving. She was crossing both lines on the road, so I backed off. Within a few minutes she crossed the centre line and struck a Jeep CJ head-on. No serious injuries, fortunately, but there was plenty of grief to go around. idk how I’d react if I was the victim.

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Quite silly that our lawmakers spent all this time writing multiple bills and talking about them endlessly, and come up with a law that (as the previous commenter points out) allows people to play Angry Birds (though I play Angry Birds with two hands, so that is probably covered under am existing keep-one-hand-on-the-wheel law, but maybe other know how to play Angry Birds with a thumb…)

The fine needs to be higher, or ban complete cell usage. But, texting alone is silly..and hard to prove. What happens when one gets the fine for texting while driving, and then they go to their carrier and have their time records of ingoing/outgoing text messages pulled and the cop was wrong. Seems like a waste of time money and effort. Yes it may save a FEW lives. But society is so dependant on this techology that the texting epidemic wont be solved. I dont even think it can be controlled.