The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for a complete ban on the use of cell phones, including both hand-held cell phones and hands-free sets while driving, but Houston car accident lawyers do not expect Texas to take up that recommendation anytime soon.
The National Transportation Safety Board call came after the agency released its findings into a truck accident in Missouri last year that killed 2 people. In 2010, a pickup truck driver crashed into a tractor-trailer on a highway, triggering a chain-reaction crash that included two school buses. The pickup driver and one of the occupants of the bus were killed in the crash. 30 other people were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the pickup truck driver had been texting in the minutes before the crash.
The agency has now recommended a complete ban on all cell phone use behind the wheel, excluding emergency calls. It’s the first time that the agency is formally calling for a complete ban like this. Federal safety agencies are not required to follow the recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board
However, in Texas, laws regarding texting while driving and cell phone use while driving are not likely to change anytime soon. There is very little support for even limited laws against the use of cell phones while driving. That is in spite of the fact that there were a total of 3,409 cell phone use-related accidents in Texas roads in 2010. Those accidents contributed to 46 deaths. Some cities like Galveston have banned texting while driving, while others like El Paso have banned talking on a cell phone while driving. But these laws have been hard to enforce.
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