‘Game-Changer’ Phone Ban May Run Into U.S. Drivers’ Set Ways
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board describes mobile-phone use in cars as a public-health epidemic on the scale of smoking or drunk driving. Analysts said it may be too ingrained to stop.
The board yesterday recommended all 50 states ban phone use by drivers after finishing its probe into a Missouri chain-reaction crash caused by a 19-year-old driver who sent or received 11 text messages in the 13 minutes before impact.