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Police Announce Crackdown on Texting While Driving
posted: March 30th, 2011 01:31 pm |
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April is California’s first-ever Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and Newport Beach police will be joining a statewide crackdown on drivers texting or failing to use hands-free devices while behind the wheel.
The minimum ticket cost is $159, police said, with subsequent tickets costing $279.
The crackdown will begin April 4 and last throughout the month, according to a police news release. Newport Beach and more than 225 other agencies, plus 103 California Highway Patrol Area Commands, will be enforcing the zero-tolerance policy.
Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves, the news release says.
“Younger, inexperienced drivers under 20 years old have the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashes. In addition, studies show that texting while driving can delay a driver’s reaction time just as severely as having a blood alcohol content of a legally drunk driver,” the release says.
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