Senate OK’s ban on driver texting Friday, July 17, 2009 The Associated Press
CAPITOL — The New York Senate voted Thursday to outlaw using portable electronic devices to text, play games or surf the Web while driving. The Assembly had approved the measure earlier. It sets fines up to $150 for using handheld devices or laptops to send text messages or read, view or transmit images or data while a vehicle is moving. Gov. David Paterson is expected to sign it. “This is a long-overdue safety measure for New York,” said sponsor Sen. Martin Dilan, D-Brooklyn, who chairs the Senate Transportation Committee. “Texting and burgeoning technologies continue to pose serious, and sometimes fatal, distractions to drivers of all ages.” Fines could be imposed only as a secondary offense after a driver is pulled over for breaking another law. It’s already illegal in the state to talk on a cellphone while driving. Kelly Cline, whose son A.J. Larson died in a car crash Dec. 3, 2007, at the entrance to their West Seneca neighborhood in western New York, lobbied for the measure. Police determined from phone records that he was text messaging at the time, she said. “It’s horrible,” Cline said Thursday. “I needed something good to come out of that.”.......................>>>>.........................>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/jul/17/0717_senate/
Duh.............................there's a waste of space/air/brain/paper etc.......just add a no-texting tax to the companies they can contribute to the upholding of the law.....(sh*t,,,,I forgot, I live in NYS---and it will happen, just like Frankenstein did)
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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