“Texting while driving is not only illegal in the State of Maryland but very dangerous,” commented Chief Ross Buzzuro. “When you text while driving, you take your eyes off the road, hands off the wheel and mind off the task of driving which puts yourself and others at risk.”
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,154 people were killed and an estimated additional 424,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in 2013. The University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute’s 2012 “Teen Driver Distraction Study” reports that a quarter of all teens respond to a text message one or more times while driving, and 20 percent of teens and 10 percent of parents admit that they have extended, multi-message text conversations while driving.
For more information about distracted driving and to take the pledge to drive phone free, visit www.distraction.gov.
8 comments:
Just another revenue generation scheme
ditto
Traffic deaths are down irregardless of texting or anything else.
Well then, you two idiots go and do us all a favor and text while driving. We need to cull and you both qualify.
"irregardless" is not a word.
Poor trooper gettin mad i am texting this while drivin:ggggggggggv ahhhhhhhhhhhh
funny thing is there are still states that allow texting in the car or it is a secondary offense. MD drivers must not be that good at driving if they need a law for everything car related.
If police want to preach this no texting crap when are they going to follow the same rule??
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