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Talking on a phone impairs a driver as much as having a blood alcohol content of .08 percent

Posted on Jul 25, 2009

New National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's research shows that drivers using cell phones are significantly more likely to cause an accident than those who aren't. According to a report in The New York Times , data for the study show that in 2002, cell phone use by drivers resulted in 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents.

That happened at a time when an estimated 6 percent of drivers were talking on cell phones at any given time, a percentage that's estimated to have doubled since then, according to The Times' report.

The research, 266 pages of it that were made public in their entirety for the first time this week, was convincing enough that then-Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta had a letter drafted warning states of the danger and cautioning them that mandating hands-free devices probably was not enough to fully mitigate these hazards. She said “We recommend that drivers not use these devices … except in an emergency. Moreover, we are convinced that legislation forbidding the use of handheld cell phones while driving will not be effective since it will not address the problem. In fact, such legislation may erroneously imply that hands-free phones are safe to use while driving.”

Other studies have shown that any phone conversation — even with a hands-free device — impairs a driver enough to make him a danger.

One study conducted by the University of Utah in 2006 shows that talking on a phone impairs a driver as much as having a blood alcohol content of .08 percent, the point at which a driver is legally drunk in South Carolina.

A 2003 Harvard study puts the estimated annual death toll from cell phone-driving combinations at 2,600, according to The Times.

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