According to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , hired hand - held speech sound banning have no core on the frequency of car crashes . Wait , what ?
Now , this seems unlike from specifically texting while driving , which isdemonstrably severe . But in the four state the IIHS read , the execution of a proscription on hand - adjudge phones behind the wheel made no difference in the phone number of accidents :
https://gizmodo.com/youre-23-times-more-likely-to-crash-your-car-if-youre-t-5324018
Month - to - month fluctuations in rates of collision claims in jurisdictions with BAN did n’t change from before to after the practice of law were enacted . Nor did the patterns change in comparability with trends in jurisdictions that did n’t have such laws .
aboveboard , this make some good sense , given that it ’s not phones themselves that are the trouble , but the beguilement they cause . There areplenty of other effectual methodsof acquire your eyes off the road , and a hand - free conversation is n’t needfully any safer than one where you ’ve got your sound in your hand .
https://gizmodo.com/hands-free-law-smands-free-law-distracting-dangerous-5020960
It ’s unlikely that this will stimulate any states with bans of cell utilization while driving to backtrack , but it may force other local authorities to look a little more broadly at what ’s behind all those collision . [ NY TimesviaIIHS ]
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