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This month is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and California Highway Patrol officers in the Dublin area will be educating people and enforcing distracted driving laws, CHP officials said.
This Wednesday and April 19 are focused enforcement days and officers will be speaking to drivers of all ages to tell them of the dangers of distracted driving.
Reckless and distracted driving is the number one killer of U.S. teens, according to the CHP.
It is illegal to hold or operate electronic devices, including smart phones, while driving.
A phone must be mounted on the dash, the center console or one of the lower corners of the windshield to be legal, CHP officials said.
The phone must not impair the driver’s ability to see or block the potential deployment of an airbag.
Only drivers 18 years old and older can use hands-free devices. Drivers under 18 years old cannot.
It’s also illegal for drivers to text while driving, according to CHP officials.
– Keith Burbank, Bay City News
Great, sounds good
But, Can you also keep an eye on the red lights runners on Santa Rita intersections. It is becoming more common nowadays
Is it legal to hold and use your phone while you are stopped at a red light?
@ undistracted — NO! The only time that you can use your phone is when legally parked and stopped. That certainly does not include sitting at a red light where you could be on a call when the light changed. I was rear-ended by a kid who was driving and texting. I sued and won, her daddy had to pay, it far exceeded the insurance limits. Funded my retirement. Idiot needed to learn a lesson.
CHP and PPD need to step this up and cite all abusers.
Why isn’t every month distracted driving awareness month???? Second the motion for nailing red light runners.
CHP typically patrol highways, not surface streets with signal lights.
Agree on not having focus months….this should be std protocol.
Would love to see them focus on slow drivers in the left lane and rubber neckers. Both cause accidents
Someone wrote: “Would love to see them focus on slow drivers in the left lane …”
Yes, totally agree. Even better if we can keep slow drivers off the road during commute hours. If the unemployed (with some exceptions) could stay off the roads while the rest of us are driving to and from work, that might greatly improve traffic flow. Since (in most cases) they aren’t in a hurry to get anywhere, they generally drive slower than commuters. Is this something that can be enacted at the city level or does it have to be state level?
Oh please. I drive in the fast lane most times and people that pass me up are speeding. If going 5 miles over the speed limit is considered slow driving in the fast lane…something does need to be changed, like more speeding tickets handed out. I think many people heading home from work are fairly reckless! Keeping the unemployed home during hours when traffic is heavy is such a screwed up way of taking care of traffic. This is a democratic society and all people are considered equal, so equal treatment should be given all, my friends, even when driving ~
If a person is texting and has a collision that kills another person due to the texting person distraction, can that distracted person be charged with manslaughter for the other persons death, or is that other persons death simply an accident?
@MA — agreed about charging with manslaughter in that case.
In the state where I was hit the insurance companies can multiply the driver’s rates exponentially if the distracted driver was at fault and the victim sues and wins a settlement over a certain dollar amount. It was a no-brainer for me to sue for a huge amount just to be sure that this stupid kid has to pay for it. Those rate increases BTW are for the rest of her life.
Put your cell phones down!
Claudette,
It doesnt matter whether youre goung the speed limit or not, the left lane is for passing. Speed up or get over, font feel comfortable exceeding the speed limit (no problem and thank you for obeying traffic laws) but its not your job or privlige to play traffic cop. Get over, youre causing more harm than good by pushing people to tailgate, change lanes erratically, and use the right lane to play chicken with big rigs.
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