Vehicular accidents cause tens of thousands of deaths each year.
Arizona, Missouri, Montana, and Texas are the only states that do not have laws that ban texting and driving.
Types of Texting Laws
- Primary Law: an officer does not need to have another reason for pulling someone over if he or she saw the person texting.
- Secondary Law: an officer needs to have another reason for pulling someone over before ticketing them for texting.
Studies reveal that primarily, not secondarily, enforced texting laws reduce the number of accident related fatalities.
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