The National Transportation Safety Board recently called for a total ban on driver use of portable electronic devices \u2013 both hands-free and hand-held \u2013 in all motor vehicles.<\/p>\n
Distraction-related accidents took the lives of about 3,000 people on America\u2019s highways last year, according to NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman.<\/p>\n
The agency\u2019s press release calling for the ban included examples of deadly crashes, injury accidents and near misses caused by distracted drivers, pilots and engineers.<\/p>\n
The NTSB does not have the authority to make state law, but the agency\u2019s recommendations can be used when legislators bring the issue up in capital buildings across the country.<\/p>\n
For example, a motorcoach driver slammed into a low bridge in 2004 while using a hands-free device and injured 27 high school students. A commuter train conductor texting on his phone hit a freight train head on in 2008, killing 25 in California. Two airline pilots using their laptop computers were distracted (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Transportation Safety Board recently called for a total ban on driver use of portable electronic devices \u2013 both hands-free and hand-held \u2013 in all motor vehicles. Distraction-related accidents took the lives of about 3,000 people on America\u2019s highways…<\/span><\/p>\n