Next on the docket: A bill banning shaving your armpits while driving–can you even imagine how dangerous that is? How many children will die if we don’t pass this ban?!?!? HOW MANY CHILDREN?!?!? Do you want THAT on your conscience?!?
Good job VA! The rest of the states will hopefully follow quickly. I even do it and know it is extremely dangerous. The fines should be a little higher though – texting while driving is more dangerous than speeding attentively, in my opinion.
The joke is those drivers who don’t pay strict attention to their driving. Your convenience and time is so much more important than safety. Get a room!
Until and unless our pathetically impotent legal and political systems attach a perceivable consequence, nothing changes. A $20 fine is laughable, so is a $50 fine for that matter. Want to change behavior and let people know you’re serious? Make the 1st offense a $1,000 fine. If they can’t pay, impound the vehicle for 30-days. That will get the attention of every blockhead out there.
They would subpoena your cell phone log and show that you sent a text message at 3:34:04 pm, and then note that you were involved in a traffic accident at 3:35. That would be enough proof for me.
More important than the amount of the fine is the fact that it is only a secondary offense – you can’t get pulled over unless you’re speeding, driving erratically or disobeying traffic rules at the same time. They must just be considering texting to be another run-of-the-mill “distracting activity”, like shaving or watching tv or reading a newspaper while driving. Texting is much more dangerous than holding a cellphone up to your ear, and the laws need to reflect that.
Yeah, if you have a wreck they can prove it, but if they are just stopping you for something else they are going to have a really hard time proving it.
“The bill would not apply to emergency vehicles”
Glad they put that in there
Next on the docket: A bill banning shaving your armpits while driving–can you even imagine how dangerous that is? How many children will die if we don’t pass this ban?!?!? HOW MANY CHILDREN?!?!? Do you want THAT on your conscience?!?
Good job VA! The rest of the states will hopefully follow quickly. I even do it and know it is extremely dangerous. The fines should be a little higher though – texting while driving is more dangerous than speeding attentively, in my opinion.
A 20 fine for someone that is performing an activity while driving that equates to a drunk driver with a BAC > .16
The texter MIGHT have killed someone and we let them off with a 20 fine?
Amazing what special interest groups have been able to accomplish against people that MIGHT cause harm but didn’t.
So is it 1,000 and no jail time IF you actually kill someone while texting?
What a joke.
The joke is those drivers who don’t pay strict attention to their driving. Your convenience and time is so much more important than safety. Get a room!
Unless you die in the accident with your cold dead hand wrapped around the texting phone…how will anyone prove it??!!??
Until and unless our pathetically impotent legal and political systems attach a perceivable consequence, nothing changes. A $20 fine is laughable, so is a $50 fine for that matter. Want to change behavior and let people know you’re serious? Make the 1st offense a $1,000 fine. If they can’t pay, impound the vehicle for 30-days. That will get the attention of every blockhead out there.
They would subpoena your cell phone log and show that you sent a text message at 3:34:04 pm, and then note that you were involved in a traffic accident at 3:35. That would be enough proof for me.
More important than the amount of the fine is the fact that it is only a secondary offense – you can’t get pulled over unless you’re speeding, driving erratically or disobeying traffic rules at the same time. They must just be considering texting to be another run-of-the-mill “distracting activity”, like shaving or watching tv or reading a newspaper while driving. Texting is much more dangerous than holding a cellphone up to your ear, and the laws need to reflect that.
Yeah, if you have a wreck they can prove it, but if they are just stopping you for something else they are going to have a really hard time proving it.