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Article #464Re: Cellphone Drivers Equivalent to Drunks
From: The Blue
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:23
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:23
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090909070408090005000205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A University of Utah study claims that drivers who use a cell phone will be > <>'more impaired than drunken drivers with blood alcohol levels exceeding > 0.08.' The study also says that use will turn a driver who is age 20 into > age 70. Hands-free systems apparently don't help much either as they still > require a driver to 'actively be part of a conversation.' > > >Just today I observed three vehicles swerving from lanes >and all three drivers were using cell phones. It's getting >ridiculous out there! > > Ok so when are getting old people off the road; if i have to give up my cell to get nana and papa off the road i will. Old people are much more of a danger than cell phones. -- Sharing is caring Screw the RIAA --------------090909070408090005000205 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> A University of Utah study claims that drivers who use a cell phone will be<br> <blockquote cite="mid420143AB.EEFB25AD@verizun.net" type="cite"><>'more impaired than drunken drivers with blood alcohol levels exceeding<br> 0.08.' The study also says that use will turn a driver who is age 20 into<br> age 70. Hands-free systems apparently don't help much either as they still<br> require a driver to 'actively be part of a conversation.'<br> </> <pre wrap=""><!----> Just today I observed three vehicles swerving from lanes and all three drivers were using cell phones. It's getting ridiculous out there! </pre> </blockquote> Ok so when are getting old people off the road; if i have to give up my cell to get nana and papa off the road i will. Old people are much more of a danger than cell phones.<br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Sharing is caring Screw the RIAA</pre> </body> </html> --------------090909070408090005000205--
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X-Google-Thread: fb785,9395595fd3353a79 X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,9395595fd3353a79 X-Google-Thread: 108b95,9395595fd3353a79 X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,608cc60193adc7a9 X-Google-Thread: 10774d,608cc60193adc7a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,gid1011e5,gid108b95,gid10e16d,gid10774d,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.monmouth.com!not-for-mail From: The Blue <mariober@monmouth.com> Newsgroups: va.general,dc.driving,md.general,rec.autos.driving,alt.cellular Subject: Re: Cellphone Drivers Equivalent to Drunks Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:23:39 -0500 Organization: Monmouth Internet Lines: 62 Message-ID: <ctrncu$oil$1@news.monmouth.com> References: <xSaMd.113844$Wo.3240@lakeread08> <420143AB.EEFB25AD@verizun.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: corp-gw.monmouth.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090909070408090005000205" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <420143AB.EEFB25AD@verizun.net>