Warning all drivers: cell phone crackdown happens in San Diego County

22:53 Publicado por Mario Galarza

For your security, cell phone use while operating a motor vehicle, it is illegal in the State of California. These include call, choose or with a cell phone texting.

Why? According to the Highway Traffic Safety Administration are national 80 percent of accidents on some form of driver distraction within three seconds of car accident, and talk on a cell phone is one of the priority distractions today leading to car accidents.

Did you know that dial a phone number on a mobile phone while driving increased the risk of a car accident or car accident close to 2.8 times?

Therefore it is no surprise, the authorities in San Diego County area on cell phone use while driving down cracking. Police set this month in San Diego of its zero-tolerance campaign against the use of mobile phones while driving, according to CBS News.

But it seems that San Diego can be set not only the mobile phone while driving. Call it a bad habit or just only irresponsible, but cell phone use while driving is not a light matter.  On Dec. 10 were some 456 ticketed for with a cell phone while illegally driving in San Diego County.

If you while driving is dangerous again, have to prove that cell phone use, consider a study of the journal of the human factors and ergonomics society, of which have been proposed that distracted drivers who use mobile phones just as dangerous pass on the road than those under the influence according to CNET News.

Set up the study of four different driving scenes. Forty drivers equally allocated in the following four driving conditions: no distractions, use a handheld mobile phone, talking on a hands-free device and drive, while the blood alcohol level intoxicated permitted 08 percent of California. The participants followed a pace car in each unique condition. The pace vehicle simulates real-world conditions such as stop-and-go traffic and intermittent brakes.

At the end of the simulation, the researchers found that drivers using mobile devices while driving ran slower, slower braked, and were rather to distracted driving car accident as other drivers in other simulations have. In fact not even one of the drunk drivers crashed, but three participants, which involved use of mobile phones in a car accident.

San Diego, please the phones - suppressed it never more important to stay safe on the streets and car accidents and injury to avoid. You can your Web part with your mobile phone while driving.

If a car accident injury of another driver cell phone use, contact car accident lawyers at 1-800-655-6585, for a free and private evaluation of your case our San Diego.


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