Comments on: When You are Involved in a Cell Phone Related Car Accident http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/ Your one stop resource for information on car accidents, auto accidents, boating accidents, cell phone accidents, finding a good accident lawyer, statistics on accidents and more. Make sure you are informed with correct information if you are in a car accident. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:08:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: andy http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-4479 andy Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:00:40 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-4479 I, too, believe driving while talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than not. However, comparing deaths related to talking on a cell phone and drunk driving is grossly misleading. According to numerous sources regarding drunk driving deaths, 2,600 deaths resulting from talking on a cell phone is dramatically lower than driving drunk (16,885 deaths by alcoholalert.com per 2005 – a conservative estimate). Driving drunk is significantly more dangerous than talking on a cell phone while driving. The two comparisons are not accurate. I, too, believe driving while talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than not. However, comparing deaths related to talking on a cell phone and drunk driving is grossly misleading. According to numerous sources regarding drunk driving deaths, 2,600 deaths resulting from talking on a cell phone is dramatically lower than driving drunk (16,885 deaths by alcoholalert.com per 2005 – a conservative estimate). Driving drunk is significantly more dangerous than talking on a cell phone while driving. The two comparisons are not accurate.

]]> By: Alida Jones http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-4224 Alida Jones Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:41:04 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-4224 I live in South Africa and run a NPO for road safety. When you speak about road safety everybody thinks that wearing a seatbelt is road safety. I lost my son in a accident and dedicated my live to road safety in South Africa. I hope that everybody will realize that road safety starts when your take responsibility when you are in control of a motor vehicle. Please let us all take responsibility, don't drink and drive, use your cell phone and buckle up. Let us all drive to stay alive. Kind regards Alida Jones alida@drivemoresafely.co.za www.drivemoresafely.co.za I live in South Africa and run a NPO for road safety. When you speak about road safety everybody thinks that wearing a seatbelt is road safety.

I lost my son in a accident and dedicated my live to road safety in South Africa. I hope that everybody will realize that road safety starts when your take responsibility when you are in control of a motor vehicle.

Please let us all take responsibility, don’t drink and drive, use your cell phone and buckle up. Let us all drive to stay alive.

Kind regards

Alida Jones
alida@drivemoresafely.co.za
http://www.drivemoresafely.co.za

]]> By: Dennis http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-4221 Dennis Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:20:14 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-4221 Stephanie asked: "I would like to know how do you know if a cell phone was the cause of an accident? How would the police know?" It is a moot question if using a cell phone is legal in the accident jurisdiction. And if the driver using the cell phone is dead, that pretty much make it moot as well. A woman I know recently rear-ended a car and caused a chain reaction while she was checking her e-mail on a Blackberry. Her car was totalled but no one was injured. She was ticketed for some infraction that had nothing to do with the use of her cell and she surely did not volunteer that she was reading e-mail. Since it happened in Pennsylvania, there is no state law that prohibits this kind of inattentive driving. The state is considering a bill that would make texting a secondary offence for youthful drivers. The proposal has absolutely no teeth and is unlikely to be enforced if it is enacted. Not wearing a seatbelt in PA is also a secondary offence, so that law has very little impact. The police usually do not bother to fine the drivers whose bodies are found in trees and ditches. Stephanie asked: “I would like to know how do you know if a cell phone was the cause of an accident? How would the police know?” It is a moot question if using a cell phone is legal in the accident jurisdiction. And if the driver using the cell phone is dead, that pretty much make it moot as well. A woman I know recently rear-ended a car and caused a chain reaction while she was checking her e-mail on a Blackberry. Her car was totalled but no one was injured. She was ticketed for some infraction that had nothing to do with the use of her cell and she surely did not volunteer that she was reading e-mail. Since it happened in Pennsylvania, there is no state law that prohibits this kind of inattentive driving. The state is considering a bill that would make texting a secondary offence for youthful drivers. The proposal has absolutely no teeth and is unlikely to be enforced if it is enacted.

Not wearing a seatbelt in PA is also a secondary offence, so that law has very little impact. The police usually do not bother to fine the drivers whose bodies are found in trees and ditches.

]]> By: Jason http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-4159 Jason Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:56:01 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-4159 they could look at your phone records. Maybe? they could look at your phone records. Maybe?

]]> By: Stephanie H. http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-3493 Stephanie H. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:19:48 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3493 I would like to know how do you know if a cell phone was the cause of an accident? How would the police know? A classroom discussion question. I would like to know how do you know if a cell phone was the cause of an accident? How would the police know? A classroom discussion question.

]]> By: Bertha Cobetto http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-3225 Bertha Cobetto Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:39:28 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3225 so I have been checking out your blog for the past week or two and it is pretty good, do you have a subscription feed? so I have been checking out your blog for the past week or two and it is pretty good, do you have a subscription feed?

]]> By: Kyle http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-2505 Kyle Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:23:48 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-2505 wow thank you soo much for that info. not. point is that cell phone laws are more important than seat belt laws and just as important as drunk driving laws. When you take your eyes and hands away to type a text you are more dangerous than a completely intoxicated person. wow thank you soo much for that info. not. point is that cell phone laws are more important than seat belt laws and just as important as drunk driving laws. When you take your eyes and hands away to type a text you are more dangerous than a completely intoxicated person.

]]> By: Ashley http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-2462 Ashley Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:37:09 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-2462 To all people who may read this article and the comments that maybe left, I hope you all are looking at the credibility of websites you may be looking at when it cames to looking at the statistics of driving well talking on cell phones or accidents caused by drunk drivers. It is good to know your sources and to be sure that the information you are reading is accurate. Any one person can create a website and fabricate the information they are putting on their site. Please just be sure before leaving commments on someone elses web page that you know the information you are presenting is factual and not false information. To all people who may read this article and the comments that maybe left, I hope you all are looking at the credibility of websites you may be looking at when it cames to looking at the statistics of driving well talking on cell phones or accidents caused by drunk drivers. It is good to know your sources and to be sure that the information you are reading is accurate. Any one person can create a website and fabricate the information they are putting on their site. Please just be sure before leaving commments on someone elses web page that you know the information you are presenting is factual and not false information.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/when-you-are-involved-in-a-cell-phone-related-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 Anthony Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:58:07 +0000 http://www.accidentinfo.com/blog/?p=72#comment-1199 I, too, believe driving while talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than not. However, comparing deaths related to talking on a cell phone and drunk driving is grossly misleading. According to numerous sources regarding drunk driving deaths, 2,600 deaths resulting from talking on a cell phone is dramatically lower than driving drunk (16,885 deaths by alcoholalert.com per 2005 - a conservative estimate). Driving drunk is significantly more dangerous than talking on a cell phone while driving. The two comparisons are not accurate. I, too, believe driving while talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than not. However, comparing deaths related to talking on a cell phone and drunk driving is grossly misleading. According to numerous sources regarding drunk driving deaths, 2,600 deaths resulting from talking on a cell phone is dramatically lower than driving drunk (16,885 deaths by alcoholalert.com per 2005 – a conservative estimate). Driving drunk is significantly more dangerous than talking on a cell phone while driving. The two comparisons are not accurate.

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