Illinois Bans Texting While Driving!

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Aug 7, 2009 | 06:00 PM

#51

scooplove

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This is already law in the Republik of Kalifornia. Of course, 3M cars with 3M people chatting and texting, there'll never be enough cops to be able to actually enforce it. Keep your eyes open, folks.

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Aug 8, 2009 | 11:41 AM

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SecondChance!!

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Originally Posted by krwould

Yep!! The thing is if your in an accident and they find you were texting the penalties maybe more severe!

I was in an accident the 16th of Sept. of '08 by a 17 yr old bimbo that was on her cell phone, pulled out of an alley. I saw the blue flash of her phone just before she hit me. She was STILL on the phone screaming as I was lying on the asphalt in the roadway UNDER her car as I was trying to get up and out of the busy highway on a friday night at 11pm. She pulled away and tried to leave, dragging my bike by its windshield with her wheelwell!!!!!! Thank god for bystanders at the stop light saw her and stopped and detained her. I am not one to bash a brother in blue, but I will this time.
This cherry ticket meter maid, didn't even give the dumb c**t a ticket for nothing even though it is a illegal in Il. for persons under the age of 18 to be on a cellphone while driving!!! It may be a law, but if they choose not to enforce it, it has no bearing on nothing!!!!!

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Aug 8, 2009 | 12:13 PM

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Solitaree1

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Originally Posted by ord sgt

Texting or talking on a hand=held cell phone is illegal in N.J. and it hasn't made one bit of difference. I see local P.D.'s driving and talking on cell phones. If they can do it, how can they enforce the law.

not only do they talk on phones, they talk on radios, they type on the keyboard of their mobile data terminals, they eat donuts, spill coffee and drive. It's a stupid law, and if anything makes it more unsafe, cause now the little kiddies will try and hold their cell phones below line of sight, so they can still text and drive. anyone thinks different is out of touch with reality.

Aug 8, 2009 | 12:15 PM

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Solitaree1

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Originally Posted by flhtpi158

I also think that we'll see this go the way of seatbelt enforcement. I would say that 90% of seatbelt tickets that are written are dismissed in court by the judges.

Overall is it good to have a law that might make the roads safer-yes. Is this actually going to be heavily enforced, I just don't see that happening.

Seatbelt tickets don't get dropped where I'm at. YOU must be from the great democrat corrupt "up north" part of the state.