Maryland is one step closer to establishing new penalties for cellphone-wielding drivers who are found guilty of contributing to a crash that kills or seriously injures another person.
The Maryland House of Delegates voted 111 to 25 on Friday to approve legislation that would add penalties and require suspected distracted drivers to immediately provide police with information about their cellphones. Similar legislation is pending in the Maryland Senate.
Maryland already forbids the use of hand-held cellphones in nearly all cases while driving. Under the House version of the bill, someone who is found guilty of “substantially” contributing to a crash that results in “death or serious bodily injury of another” while using a cellphone or texting would face up to one year in jail and up to $5,000 in fines. An earlier version of the legislation called for up to three years. These penalties could be applied in addition to other penalties.
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2 comments:
What about these people drinking and eating and putting on make-up while driving! Same thing !
Hopefully the cops will now be able to arrest that idiot in the green bucket truck that is always texting and driving! He runs off the road and he has run me off the road! That old man is a menace to the public!
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